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Do you have a concrete example to ask about? Are you thinking of a particular language?
Basically, do whatever is most idiomatic in your language. It also depends on what the control flow really looks like. General recursion translates to a while loop where you put stuff on a stack, and the recursive form may make more sense. Tail recursion translates to a jump or a for loop, and the loop is often more idiomatic.