Tail-call optimization/elimination was brought up in several threads like this one in discourse and this one in GitHub . The main interest seems to be purely based on the nice-to-have performance benefit and the core devs seem to be open to the change while assigning very low priority because writing…

Tail-call optimization and function-barrier -based accumulation in loops

tkf September 15, 2019, 1:47am 8

I just find that Guy Steele is discussing something very similar in the first half of this talk:

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