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Thanks, I didn't realise the usable address space was so "small", those numbers are well within reasonable usage so that's definitely too limiting to just say i

by tinco 3y ago

Thanks, I didn't realise the usable address space was so "small", those numbers are well within reasonable usage so that's definitely too limiting to just say it's infinite and not worry about it.

layer8 3y ago
Apart from address space, there’s also simply the question of wasted resources, because in tail-call-optimizable programs, that stack space is by definition not strictly needed (otherwise it couldn’t be optimized away), so you might unnecessarily be wasting many GBs of memory. Lastly, TCO can improve cache locality and thus potentially speed up the program.