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Re:JDK 8 Release Notes by richdougherty on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @11:55PM (#7426737)
The stack doesn't have to be in the heap to make things better for recursion* , the JVM just needs to support tail-call optimisation.

See my blog post: http://blog.richdougherty.com/2009/04/tail-calls-tailrec-and...

I'm excited to see tail-call optimisation ("proper tail calls") coming to JavaScript. Hopefully a bit of competition will encourage the JVM to clean up its act too.

http://bbenvie.com/articles/2013-01-06/JavaScript-ES6-Has-Ta...

(* Heap-allocated frames can help with other things though, e.g continuations.)

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