[Mono-bugs] [Bug 73936][Min] Changed - gmcs does not optimize for space

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Changed by nazgul@omega.pl.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=73936

--- shadow/73936	2005-03-21 15:25:40.000000000 -0500
+++ shadow/73936.tmp.25660	2005-03-21 15:35:34.000000000 -0500
@@ -133,6 +133,26 @@
 slower
 (http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/ProductFeedback/viewfeedback.aspx?did=1&t=4pUuXAlfXBwZaLyAWxinehiq7qZrf5V6mK4nwlrLErGeauo6QmckGFWIQjoI0l56l3zxgu0R8fOA!K*qS!IZy2uw$$&p=4bxwvy9diGkDyDW7r0b2540!C5EqPdzzi3w2GFLMOe0FPK*kH2EvUhmPNrRGceTVgqln!puNMLQwpJ1aDbgcCKGNu6adUOAr!*!50iu6ZaF9Xs2wLbwMD75Cf0t7AoBoAr*B9qpFEb79Q$&feedbackid=58ece8e2-6914-4049-9d1a-2d040b705512)
 On mono it is faster though.
 
 The fact that csc do not optimize self tail call is the proof that it
 is lame compiler, not that this is the *right* thing.
+
+------- Additional Comments From nazgul@omega.pl  2005-03-21 15:35 -------
+> About xplatform, what I am saying is that if you rely on -O=tailc,
+> your program won't work on the msft jit unless they do something 
+> similar.
+
+This way of thinking is IMHO wrong. Self tail calls it just an
+optimization, it helps in 99,999% of cases. 
+Is there some policy in mono that forbids you to optimize cases, which
+are not optimized in MS.NET? 
+For example exception handling is much faster in mono than in MS.NET,
+does it mean we should make it slower, so people relying on it will
+not suffer from "incompatibilities"? It doesn't make much sense.
+
+I also do not think that people can get "habits" of using too much
+exceptions or recursive like programming just because it is fast in
+mono, most of them will know that other runtimes might not handle it
+well or/and test it.
+
+Of course this is a FEATURE, but it would be nice to see it in mcs/gmcs.