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		wsxiaoys on Aug 24, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What is your favorite CS paper? Cheney on the MTA http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/CheneyMTA.html Full tail recursion scheme implementation by never "return" in C

twoodfin on Aug 24, 2017 [–]

Such a great hack. Not only tail recursion but a complete GC implementation in (almost) platform-independent generated C code.

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