[Nickle] trace command omits invariant functions

Carl Worth nickle@nickle.org
Thu, 5 Dec 2002 14:34:08 -0500


On Dec 5, Keith Packard wrote:
 > The compiler does tail-call optimizations; recursive programming without 
 > them tends to have memory problems.

Ah, yes. Of course.

 > You can actually disable these if you like, turning on profiling before 
 > compiling the functions tells the compiler to not short-circuit.
 > 
 > > profile(true)
 > > load "foo.5c"

Perfect. Thank you.

-Carl