(0branch.com) Tail Call Optimisation in Common Lisp Implementations

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An article on guarantees of tail-call elimination in various Common Lisp implementations.

For SBCL, the following is the constraints on when tail-call elimination is done for both self-calls and general tail-calls:

Tail-merging is done if (> SPACE DEBUG) or (> SPEED DEBUG) – not by default.