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Re:Node 8.3.0 released by specialist on Thursday August 10, 2017 @11:49AM (#14980883)
Huh. No tailcall optimization? Then I don't understand something and have to recheck.

I just wrote a Redis REPL (wire protocol) parser using recursion. Being so simple, I wasn't worried about stack depth. But while stepping thru with WebStorm's debugger, I noticed the tailcalls were (apparently) being eliminated. An unexpected surprise.

Using nodejs 6.11.1, npm 3.10.10.

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Re:Node 8.3.0 released by eric_bullington on Thursday August 10, 2017 @01:04PM (#14981751)
It's behind a flag now, but they're eliminating it, so it will not be released.
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Re:Node 8.3.0 released by dvlsg on Thursday August 10, 2017 @12:07PM (#14981057)
Yeah, tail call optimization has been in since node 6, I believe. _Maybe_ behind a v8 flag.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=4698

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