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		WastingMyTime89 on July 13, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: We are trying to get tail calls into the ... > Tail-calls is fundamentally something that the compiler _cannot_ solve. Trust me, if there was a way we would have avoided ourselves all this work. I have been out of the loop regarding compilers development for a long time but what prevents you from converting your program to CPS and using a trampoline like some LISP still do?

antonvs on July 13, 2022 [–]

A trampoline is a workaround that wastes memory and time. The idea is to avoid that so that you can use function calls efficiently.

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