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Do not grow the interpreter stack for tail calls

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#1,008 opened on Sep 27, 2017

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Description

Not a priority, but eventually we may as well conform to the specification here so that Prepack is a 100% accurate reference implementation for ECMA 262.

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Research direction
Investigate the current interpreter handling of tail calls and modify the stack management to not grow on tail calls to comply with ECMAScript specification.
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
compilers
Issue type
Feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
3
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Half day
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Stale
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Mostly clear
Prerequisites
JavaScript
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30