Re: Proposal: lua_pushfoo() should return 1

[Chris Emerson <chris-lua@...>]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 12:45:51AM -0700, Tim Hill wrote:
> There are two advantages to tail-calls: the first is a small performance
> improvement which collapses a call/ret into a jump.  The much bigger
> (potential) advantage is that it doesn’t use stack space, and this means
> that recursive functions that can take advantage of this do not run the
> risk of stack overflows.

Of course you can't actually portably take advantage of that in C, as the
standard doesn't guarantee anything, unlike in Scheme etc.  So it's more of
a nice-to-have optimisation.

Chris