Gilad Bracha wrote a fascinating piece on how tail call optimization could be implemented with periodic collection instead of immediately reusing the call frame

Gilad Bracha wrote a fascinating piece on how tail call optimization could be implemented with periodic collection instead of immediately reusing the call frame, it's a fascinating piece: https://gbracha.blogspot.com/2009/12/chased-by-ones-own-tail.html https://gbracha.blogspot.com/2009/12/chased-by-ones-own-tail...