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1. coldacid on 🔥 (coldacid@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 00:34:51 JST coldacid on 🔥
   back in the day you could write a function that ends in a call to another function in the same module, and the compiler could optimize out the stack frame for that call
   
   I don't think you can do that with metadata-rich managed code systems like Java or .NET
   • LS (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 00:34:50 JST LS

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     @coldacid i'm not sure if java or .net support tail call optimization, but i know for a fact that it is possible. source: BEAM does it and i programmed a VM with tail call optimization for java-like bytecode in uni.
   • LS (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 00:38:18 JST LS

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     @coldacid yeah, it's a runtime feature in these languages
   • coldacid on 🔥 (coldacid@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 00:38:19 JST coldacid on 🔥

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     • LS
     @lain if you can't JMP into the middle of another function, you can't TCO. The JVM or CLR may support it, but the language compilers can't.