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Docs: more explanation of the implications of new tail-call interpreter (GH-129863)
Co-authored-by: Ken Jin <[email protected]>
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Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst

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This is not to be confused with `tail call optimization`__ of Python
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functions, which is currently not implemented in CPython.
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This new interpreter type is an internal implementation detail of the CPython
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interpreter. It doesn't change the visible behavior of Python programs at
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all. It can improve their performance, but doesn't change anything else.
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__ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail_call
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(Contributed by Ken Jin in :gh:`128718`, with ideas on how to implement this
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(Contributed by Ken Jin in :gh:`128563`, with ideas on how to implement this
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in CPython by Mark Shannon, Garrett Gu, Haoran Xu, and Josh Haberman.)
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