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Tail-Call Optimization in C: Principles, History, and musttail in Practice
A deep dive into tail-call optimization (TCO) in C: technical principles, compiler implementation history, and practical use of the musttail attribute in interpreters, state machines, and more.
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Tail-Call Interpreters: A New Approach to Building High-Performance Bytecode Interpreters in Rust
Deep dive into tail-call interpreters in Rust: core principles, workarounds for missing TCO, borrow checker challenges, and comparison with CPython's tail-call interpreter.
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