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On Sat 09 Jan 2021 at 11:44, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> Is TCO always used (like in Scheme) or in which cases is it used or not used?
>
> It's basically never used.  It's only applied for the particular case of
> tail recursive calls to functions defined by `cl-labels` and only for
> those calls that are "self-recursive" (i.e. come from within the code of
> that function).

I see.  That's already good step forward.  Thank you!