What is Tail Call Optimization (TCO) and under what conditions does the ECMAScript specification mandate it?

JavaScript Professional Hard

JavaScript Professional — Hard

Key points

TCO reuses stack frames to prevent stack overflow in deep recursion.
ECMAScript mandates TCO in strict mode when the return value is directly from a call expression.
TCO does not convert recursive functions to iterative loops or apply only to async functions.

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