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Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion)

From "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.ruby
Subject Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion)
Date 2011-04-20 04:30 +0000
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WJ wrote:

> (time (set! bigfib (fib 50000)))
>     562 ms real time
>     516 ms cpu time (500 user, 16 system)

This Ruby version runs in about 0.6 seconds:

def fib n
  a,b = 0,1
  2.upto(n){
    a,b = b, a+b
  }
  b
end

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Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) Terry Michaels <cmhoward@frigidcode.com> - 2011-04-18 00:59 -0500
  Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-18 12:29 -0500
    Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-18 18:10 +0000
      Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) Louis-Philippe <default@spiralix.org> - 2011-04-18 15:40 -0500
        Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-18 22:27 +0000
          Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) Louis-Philippe <default@spiralix.org> - 2011-04-19 07:28 -0500
            Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-20 04:12 +0000
              Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-20 04:30 +0000
                Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-20 06:37 -0500
        Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) Vincent Manis <vmanis@telus.net> - 2011-04-18 19:41 -0500
          Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) Steve Klabnik <steve@steveklabnik.com> - 2011-04-18 20:42 -0500
            Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) Vincent Manis <vmanis@telus.net> - 2011-04-18 21:51 -0500
              Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) Michael Edgar <adgar@carboni.ca> - 2011-04-18 22:12 -0500
              Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) Steve Klabnik <steve@steveklabnik.com> - 2011-04-19 08:48 -0500
                Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> - 2011-04-19 08:56 -0500
                Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) Steve Klabnik <steve@steveklabnik.com> - 2011-04-19 10:07 -0500
  Re: Tail Call Optimization (Tail Recursion) Steve Klabnik <steve@steveklabnik.com> - 2011-04-18 12:39 -0500

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