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Questions about objects such as functions, algorithms or data structures that are expressed using "smaller" instances of themselves.

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Is it beneficial to convert recursion to tail recursion?

Any recursion can be converted into tail recursion by transforming the function into continuation-passing style. The continuations being built can be defunctionalized (a-la John C. … As you can see, there's no recursion - the function itself is even unnamed. …
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Tail call optimization via translating to CPS

Somehow turn the opaque lambdas next_cont = lambda result: current_cont(current_value * result) into transparent data next_cont = Compose( current_cont, Mult(current_value)) then use the fact that …
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