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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: Possibly Pythonic Tail Call Optimization (TCO/TRE)
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 10:34:39 +1200
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Mark Lawrence wrote:
> IIRC the realms of the C setjmp and longjmp.

Not really the same thing. A longjmp chops the stack
back, whereas a tail call avoids putting something on
the stack to begin with.

-- 
Greg