Re: [fpc-pascal] fpc isn't optimised for tail recursion, is it?

On 6/12/23 04:44, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal wrote: Hi all, Tail recursion is recursion in which absolutely nothing gets executed after the return statement. Some programming languages, including Guile, optimize for tail recursion such that tail recursive algorithms don't use additional stack sp

[fpc-pascal] fpc isn't optimised for tail recursion, is it?

Hi all, Tail recursion is recursion in which absolutely nothing gets executed after the return statement. Some programming languages, including Guile, optimize for tail recursion such that tail recursive algorithms don't use additional stack space as you pile up more and more levels of recursion.