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Jan 30, 2023 at 06:21
I really like languages that store their runtime stack on the heap, such as Smalltalk. You can write code as if you have tail call optimisation, but you still have normal stack traces for debugging.

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I've never seen a JIT with an "eject" option. If I'm happy with the steady-state performance of my system, I'd rather disable the JIT and lose additional optimisation in favour of removing the tracing overhead. Do any languages offer this?