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MereInterest on July 13, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tell HN: We are trying to get tail calls into the ...

Any optimization that removes an unnecessary stack allocation could also be the difference between normal execution and stack overflow, due to decreasing the size of the stack frame.

netheril96 on July 13, 2022 [–]

But the effect is much more likely in tail recursive cases.

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