console.log avoid maximum call stack

Question

Code below got error Maximum call stack size exceeded as expected.

function recurrent (i = 0) {
  recurrent(++i)
}

recurrent ()

I expect this exceeded the maximum call stack, too. However, it runs, why?

function recurrent (i = 0) {
  console.log(i)
  recurrent(++i)
}

recurrent ()

Result:

print till a number and stop, but no errors.

...
10815
10816
10817
10818
10819
10820
10821
10822
10823
10824

I'm using NodeJs 10 on Windows 10

Update

Chrome got error

Answer 1

They'll both fail in the exact same way, as one would expect. It's just that the log statement slows the function down to a degree that it may not appear to fail immediately.

Here's the results of timing each version using time:

# With logging:
...
RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded

real    0m0.204s
user    0m0.171s
sys 0m0.035s

# Without logging
...
RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded

real    0m0.082s
user    0m0.054s
sys 0m0.021s

When testing this in Chrome the same process occurs, however much, much slower. It took over 30 seconds before the RangeError was thrown.