Re:Tail Call Optimization: The Musical
by fckgnad on Sunday January 08, 2023 @10:33AM
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Yes.
For functional programming it is a required optimization for performant programs.
This is because loops don't exist in functional programming. The base way of imitating looping in functional programming is recursion then building abstractions on top of the recursion like map and reduce.
For functional programming it is a required optimization for performant programs.
This is because loops don't exist in functional programming. The base way of imitating looping in functional programming is recursion then building abstractions on top of the recursion like map and reduce.