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Couldn't the compiler take care of optimizing those when necessary? After all I don't know of any "real" assembly with tail call support...

• panic 9y ago
  Most assembly languages have a "jump" instruction, though -- wasm supports only structured control flow.
  • pjmlp 9y ago
    It has br and loop, good enough.
    • int_19h 9y ago
      I don't think it's sufficient for full-fledged generalized tail call elimination. You can certainly optimize a self-recursive call down to a loop, but consider a case where a function accepts another function as a pointer, and invokes that pointer in a tail call position, for example (i.e. anything written in continuation-passing style).
• Nullabillity 9y ago
  JMP is the original TCO.