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saidinesh5 ◴[20 Feb 25 04:32 UTC] No.43111181[source]▶

Do check out the articles in the top most comment.. about how tail call optimization gets you faster interpreters.

It completely eliminates the overhead of function calls in the generated machine code while you still your code modularly using functions.

1. nine_k ◴[20 Feb 25 08:44 UTC] No.43112498[source]▶

I think this technique is known since 1970s as "direct threaded code".

A tail calling interpreter for Python (already landed in CPython)