It's a gross exaggeration to say there's no advantage. Who decided that stack frame re-use is "the purpose" of tail-call optimization, while not blowing the sta

It's a gross exaggeration to say there's no advantage. Who decided that stack frame re-use is "the purpose" of tail-call optimization, while not blowing the stack is not? It seems to me that being able to run the function at all is more important than whether it runs quickly.