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		sb8244 on Jan 6, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Clojure for the Erlang VM What does "guarantee" mean here? If you end a function in BEAM with another function call, it's TCO.

bad_login on Jan 6, 2020 [–]

Tail Call Optimization is an optimization done by the compile/vm that replace (in assembly terms) a CALL by a JMP. Therefore removing a call stack.

sb8244 on Jan 6, 2020 | [–]

Correct. BEAM does real TCO as far as I'm aware. LYSE has a blurb about it and seems to agree (https://learnyousomeerlang.com/recursion).

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