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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.

Solution

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

    No more tail calls in JavaScript?

    As of 2010, no widely-available implementations of JavaScript currently do automatic TCO.

    See comments for more recent updates.