ES6 Tail Recursion Optimisation Stack Overflow

Question

Having read Dr Rauschmayer\'s description of recursive tail call optimisation in es6, I\'ve since been trying to recreate the \'zero-stack\' execution of the recursive facto

Answer 1

The V8 (Chrome's JS engine) team is not implementing TCO, for the time being. It's ripped out of the most recent versions (see this thread).

Of the major browsers, only Safari has actually implemented the feature.

In Node.JS version 8 and later, TCO is not available.

There may be some hope of TCO being implemented: in a 2017 WebAssembly meeting, Google and all the other groups present were neutral or positive toward exploring TCO implementation further.