Am So., 3. Dez. 2023 um 06:13 Uhr schrieb John Cowan <[email protected]>:

> Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen scripsit:
>
> SRFI 124 is wrong here; by Scheme's proper tail call guarantee, defined in
>> "Will Clinger's Proper Tail Recursion and Space Efficiency," no longer used
>> locations must be garbage collected (up to some "O(1)").
>
>
>  Not necessarily.  If a program is known to terminate and doesn't require
> more locations (naively) than the machine makes available, then no garbage
> collection is required.
>

This is like saying that bubble sort is an O(1) algorithm for any program
that terminates.

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