Tail Call Optimization

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Shouldn't be hard to implement a basic tail recursion optimization: If the last operation in a function is a call to the same function, replace the call with jump to start. ¹

Clinger98 is probably a good start. I came up with this issue after seeing the added tail call interpreter to Python 3.14, although it seems quite different than this optimization. ²

Footnotes

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail_call ↩

2. https://x.com/charliermarsh/status/1888384047682093248?s=46&t=yUnnWYe3WhbU_1enl6udgw ↩