Re: Fibonacci series recursion error

From	Hans Georg Schaathun <hg@schaathun.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Fibonacci series recursion error
Date	2011-04-30 12:01 +0100
Organization	University of Bergen
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On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 06:43:42 +0100, Paul Rudin
  <paul.nospam@rudin.co.uk> wrote:
:  Writing recurive code is acceptable and is a nice clear way of
:  expressing things when you have naturally recursive data structures, and
:  can lead to perfectly good compiled code. The problem in CPython is the
:  lack of tail optimization, so it's not a good idea for python . Some
:  language standards guarantee tail optimization...

Well, if you run into a case where tail optimisation really makes a
difference, you probably want to reimplement it for a compiler that
guarantees tail optimisation, rather than reimplement it without
recursion within python.


-- 
:-- Hans Georg

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Re: Fibonacci series recursion error Hans Georg Schaathun <hg@schaathun.net> - 2011-04-30 12:01 +0100
  Re: Fibonacci series recursion error Paul Rudin <paul.nospam@rudin.co.uk> - 2011-04-30 12:29 +0100
    Re: Fibonacci series recursion error Hans Georg Schaathun <hg@schaathun.net> - 2011-04-30 14:21 +0100

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