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		tomp on Jan 8, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Tail Call Optimization Works TCO is exactly as useful as async/await. Could you write an equivalent state machine manually? Yes. Do you want to? No.

eru on Jan 11, 2021 [–]

What do you mean by 'exactly as useful'? I can see how they are both useful, and there are even some problems were either approach works. But I don't see an exact correspondence?

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