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From: Mikhail Kruk <meshko@cs.brandeis.edu>
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Subject: offtopic question [Re: Shujit doesn't work with Forte and JDK1.3.1
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> Those shuJIT's bugs are very interesting for me. Almost
> all the bugs are related to synchronization. One of them
> involves tail recursion elimination (an optimization
> technique) of a synchronized method.

This is very interesting. Is this a common practice to eliminate tail
recursion in Java JIT compilers or is it only shujit that does that?
In general is it a common optimization in procedural languages like Java,
C etc?
Thanks!


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