From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2011-04-19T22:56:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion)

Steve Klabnik wrote in post #993760:
> In reality, the more useful benefit of TCO comes when it's not a
> recursive
>> procedure, but simply invoking another method, and thus using less stack.

Of course you will then lose the backtrace. Also, stack is cheap to 
allocate and release, and the amount used will be small unless your code 
is hundreds of method calls deep.

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