It can be done mechanically, it's essentially what a compiler does.
But yeah, it can be a useful technique, specially when there's tail recursion and the explicit stack just vanishes and the recursion turns into a plain old loop which the hardware just loves.
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It can be done mechanically, it's essentially what a compiler does.
But yeah, it can be a useful technique, specially when there's tail recursion and the explicit stack just vanishes and the recursion turns into a plain old loop which the hardware just loves.