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A naive recursive factorial blows the call stack at large inputs. Why does rewriting it in proper tail-call form NOT fix the stack overflow in V8 (Node/Chrome) as of recent versions?

function fact(n, acc = 1) { if (n <= 1) return acc; return fact(n - 1, n * acc); // tail position } fact(100000);