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		duaneb on March 4, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scala on LLVM > like guaranteed tail call optimization? Isn't this what the @tailrec annotation is for? If it compiles it's tail recursive. This is separate than actually JIT'ing the call bytecode into a loop, I realize, but for a pragmatic engineer there's already a solution.

densh on March 4, 2016 [–]

@tailrec works only for simple cases of tail recursion. For example it doesn't support mutual tail recursion at the moment.

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