Top "Tail-call-optimization" questions

A tail-call optimization is when a function returns directly the result of a called function, to avoid allocating a new stack frame.

Tail Call Optimization in Go

Does the Go programming language, as of now, optimize tail calls? If not, does it at least optimize tail-recursive calls …

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What is tail-recursion elimination?

Steve Yegge mentioned it in a blog post and I have no idea what it means, could someone fill me …

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Does Swift implement tail call optimization? and in mutual recursion case?

In particular if I have the following code: func sum(n: Int, acc: Int) -> Int { if n == 0 { return …

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