Phil Eaton • 5/14/2019

Tail call elimination

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This technical article explains the concept of tail calls in programming, providing clear examples to distinguish tail calls from non-tail calls. It details the importance of tail call elimination for performance and preventing stack overflows, and demonstrates implementation strategies in an interpreter, a C++ compiler, and an LLVM IR compiler.

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