Re: [Chicken-users] optimizing mutually recursive loops

[John Cowan]

Peter Bex scripsit:

> I don't think "parameterize" is tail-recursive (it uses dynamic-wind),
> so if you expect procedure calls to be nested deeply, this might not be
> an option.

It is possible to have dynamic binding and tail recursion at the same
time, though:  see http://www.accesscom.com/~darius/writings/dynatail.html
for the general scheme.

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