Can Java (JIT) inline recursive methods?

Question

The question says it all. I was taking a look at Can a recursive function be inline? so trying to correlate that to Java.

Answer 1

Sort of. Tail-recursive methods can be fairly readily converted to loops. Otherwise, the JITC may inline several calls as a sort of "unrolling".

Depends on the phase of the moon and the day of the week, though -- lots of different factors affect the JITC's decisions.