alt Hacker Newsthe call is still in tail position whether or not it reuses the stack frame. there are also more involved ways to do tail call optimization than a direct single-jump compilation when you leave ret behind entirely, such as in forth-style threaded interpreters
I guess were talking about optimising tail recursion. Would there be any reason to refer to a tail call other than that optimisation?
I’ll do some reading on the latter part of your post, thank you!