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Does Scala support tail recursion optimization?

April 26, 2017optimization recursion Scala support tail

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Does Scala support tail recursion optimization?

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Scala does tail recursion optimisation at compile-time, as other posters have said. That is, a tail recursive function is transformed into a loop by the compiler (a method invoke is transformed into a jump), as can be seen from the stack trace when running a tail recursive function.