alt Hacker NewsIt is not an optimization ; it changes program semantics - converts programs that will run out of stack eventually regardless of the amount of available memory (and raise exceptions an the process, for example, which a program might rely on. Either way, semantics are changed)
It should only be called Tail Call Elimination.
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flakes • last Thursday at 6:16 AM
> converts programs that will run out of stack eventually regardless of the amount of available memory (and raise exceptions an the process, for example, which a program might rely on
By that standard, any optimization that changes scaling in any dimension changes semantics, which, well, I’m not saying its wrong, but I would say it is exactly what people looking for optimization want.