A stack overflow occurs when a program uses more stack memory than is allocated for it, typically due to excessive or uncontrolled recursion. This situation leads to the program crashing or behaving unpredictably because it runs out of memory to manage function calls and local variables. The performance implications of lazy evaluation can exacerbate this problem, as deferred computations can create deeper call stacks, increasing the risk of running into stack overflow issues.
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