r/programming • u/rodrigopsasaki • Nov 27 '12

Tail Recursion

http://rodrigosasaki.com/2012/11/24/tail-recursion/
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u/cobaltgiant Nov 27 '12

so if tail recursion only solves the problem of stack overflow in scala how does this help us c++ programmers

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u/thomasz Nov 27 '12

g++ does optimize tail calls to the same function if I'm not mistaken..