Hi, In some quite large piece of code, I am doing some (possibly nested) tail calls of the form: if blahblah then — do something else return dosomethingelse(…) end A "luajit -jv” tells me that I got a "NYI: bytecode 71…”, at the line of the tail call. This did not surprise me too much, considering http://wiki.luajit.org/NYI: "Tailcall. Some tailcalls to frames lower than the starting frame of the trace are not compiled.” However, in an attempt to optimize this, I could not reproduce this NYI on a simpler (even nested) toy test case. - Is there someone who knows by any chance which tailcalls will not get compiled? (I am not sure to what the “some” refers in the above explanation). - In the end, I am not even sure what a “frame” means. I am certainly not an expert in trace compilers. Can someone explain this to me in few words (or where can I find documentation for this)? Thanks for your help, Ronan.
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