Why doesn't infinite recursion hit a stack overflow exception in F#?

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Published on 2012-11-30T23:02:18Z Indexed on 2012/11/30 23:03 UTC
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I know this is somewhat the reverse of the issue people are having when they ask about a stack overflow issue, but if I create a function and call it as follows, I never receive any errors, and the application simply grinds up a core of my CPU until I force-quit it:

let rec recursionTest x =
    recursionTest x

recursionTest 1

Of course I can change this out so it actually does something like this:

let rec recursionTest (x: uint64) =
    recursionTest (x + 1UL)

recursionTest 0UL

This way I can occasionally put a breakpoint in my code and see the value of x is going up rather quickly, but it still doesn't complain. Does F# not mind infinite recursion?

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