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It's also not Tjänstemännens Centralorganisation, the largest white collar union in Sweden, and also the org behind the TCO labelling of computer monitors.

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If you google TCO, at least where I am (North America), "Total Cost of Ownership" is the first result - and the dominant one on the first page of results.

It's also the main definition of TCO that most people are probably familiar with, me included.

This felt like a reasonable clarification to make.

I guess for anyone interested in Bun and Javascript, it would be more obvious.

User what does "TCO" mean in " Bun, JavaScript, and TCO"

ChatGPT "TCO" in "Bun, JavaScript, and TCO" refers to "Tail Call Optimization."

Usually not for JS people, because they don't get to use recursion much, due to decisions by browser makers. More likely that people from other, usually FP languages think of the actual meaning it has in the article or in the computer programming world.

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