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functional programming - Are any JavaScript engines tail call (TCO) optimized?

I have a tail recursive pathfinding algorithm that I've implemented in JavaScript and would like to know if any (all?) browsers would possibly get stack overflow exceptions.

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The ECMAScript 4 specification was originally going to add support for TCO, but it was dropped:

No more tail calls in JavaScript?

As far as I know, no widely-available implementations of JavaScript currently do automatic TCO. This may be of use to you, though:

Tail Call Optimization

Essentially, using the accumulator pattern accomplish the same effect.


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