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Usually it is implemented by reshuffling stack frame + jumping to the call destination. See how it is done in .NET, for example. Do not confuse tail recursion,

by sklogic 11y ago

Usually it is implemented by reshuffling stack frame + jumping to the call destination. See how it is done in .NET, for example. Do not confuse tail recursion, which is the least interesting narrow case of a tail call, with tail calls in general.

ectoplasm 11y ago
Why can't you modify a JVM to do this? I don't get it.
- sklogic 11y ago
  Of course you can (but you have to add another instruction or an instruction prefix). But Oracle won't ever do it.