Trampolines are a hack that penalizes the performance of any language that uses tail calls a lot, like functional languages (scheme, lisp, Haskell, etc). You c

Trampolines are a hack that penalizes the performance of any language that uses tail calls a lot, like functional languages (scheme, lisp, Haskell, etc). You could also handle exceptions manually too, without VM support, but that too would incir considerable overhead.