• In computer science, a tail call is a subroutine call performed as the final action of a procedure. If the target of a tail is the same subroutine, the...
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  • as calls to a continuation; intermediate values, which are all given names; order of argument evaluation, which is made explicit; and tail calls, which...
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    significance of tail recursion is that when making a tail-recursive call (or any tail call), the caller's return position need not be saved on the call stack;...
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    Goto (section Tail calls)
    the tail call optimizations discussed by Steele turned the procedure into a credible way of implementing iteration through single tail recursion (tail recursion...
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  • implement tail-call optimization, allowing infinite recursion of a specific sort—tail recursion—to occur without stack overflow. This works because tail-recursion...
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    The tail is the elongated section at the rear end of a bilaterian animal's body; in general, the term refers to a distinct, flexible appendage extending...
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    EBPF (section Tail calls)
    executed.   Tail calls can call and execute another eBPF program and replace the execution context, similar to how the execve() system call operates for...
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    does not require the optimization commonly termed a tail call elimination. Thus, the fact that tail recursive style as a casual replacement for the use...
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    choose lexical scope and the first to require implementations to perform tail-call optimization, giving stronger support for functional programming and associated...
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  • Scheme was the first dialect of lisp to use lexical scoping and to require tail-call optimization, features that encourage functional programming. In the 1980s...
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  • interfere with the call stack information that can be recovered at runtime. For instance, inlining can cause missing stack frames, tail call optimizations...
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    provide tail call optimization to allow for extensive use of recursion without stack overflow problems. Limitations in Java bytecode complicate tail call optimization...
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  • of tail-recursive call optimization, and thus efficient implementation of mutual tail recursion may be absent from languages that only optimize tail-recursive...
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    friend!") } Gleam supports tail call optimization: pub fn factorial(x: Int) -> Int { // The public function calls the private tail recursive function factorial_loop(x...
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    types Tuples List comprehension Monad pattern support (called computation expressions) Tail call optimisation F# is an expression-based language using...
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    A comet tail and coma are visible features of a comet when they are illuminated by the Sun and may become visible from Earth when a comet passes through...
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    The V-tail or vee-tail (sometimes called a butterfly tail or Rudlicki's V-tail[citation needed]) of an aircraft is an unconventional arrangement of the...
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  • Fairy Tail (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima. It was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine...
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  • used to implement tail call elimination. One generalization of continuations are delimited continuations. Continuation operators like call/cc capture the...
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  • least since Algol 68. Functional programming languages tend to rely on tail call optimization and higher-order functions instead of imperative looping...
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  • Cinematic Orchestra, a British-based jazz and electronic music group Tail call optimization, a computer programming concept TCO watchdog, a hardware...
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    using the call sign corresponding to the aircraft's registration number (also called N-number in the U.S., or tail number). In this case, the call sign is...
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  • However, C is a poor choice for functional languages: it does not guarantee tail-call optimization, or support accurate garbage collection or efficient exception...
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    In statistics and business, a long tail of some distributions of numbers is the portion of the distribution having many occurrences far from the "head"...
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    tail donut (also called tiger tail doughnut or simply tiger tail) is a donut that is twisted with another ingredient so that it looks like the tail of...
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    requiring only constant memory overhead if tail call optimization is available, or if eliminating the tail recursion with a loop: function select(list...
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  • in tail position; mutually recursive subroutines must either use shared variables or pass state as parameters. Further, each mutually recursive call of...
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  • optimization technique called tail call optimization (TCO) for deterministic predicates exhibiting tail recursion or, more generally, tail calls: A clause's stack...
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  • optimization method called tail call optimization (TCO) for deterministic predicates exhibiting tail recursion or, more generally, tail calls: A clause's stack...
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  • implementation uses tail call optimization (usually required for functional languages), objects may also be seen as escaping to called subroutines. If a...
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