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"Mirar @ Pike  importmöte för mailinglistan" <<6341[at]lyskom.lysator.liu.se>>
skrev:

> would probably give a tail recursion optimization, releasing the local
> variables of the function fun() first and then call some_call(),
> dropping fun()'s stackframe before calling.

Yes, that's probably the reason. Although I vaguely recall that the
tail recursion optimization treats this case correctly nowadays, so it
shouldn't be necessary. Can't say for sure though, but it's easy to
try out.