Re: [basex-talk] Tail Recursion Error on startup

Hi Buddy,

If we attempt to execute it again (sometimes twice, but have done so repeatedly up to 5 times), the error goes away and all is fine.

Difficult to say why this happens. Maybe your code is rewritten by Java’s JIT compiler.

Is there anything you can suggest or anything we can provide you to see how to eliminate this. This is particularly problematic on our server when we reboot our production application. Anything you can suggest or anyway we can help is much appreciated.

The problem itself is a generic one and not limited to BaseX or XQuery. Did you try rewrite your function calls to tail calls [1]? Another alternative is to increase the stack size of Java (via the -Xss flag).

Hope this helps, Christian

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail_call