[Python-Dev] Proper tail recursion (original) (raw)

Christopher T King squirrel at WPI.EDU
Wed Jul 14 21:53:19 CEST 2004


On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, [ISO-8859-1] "Martin v. L=F6wis" wrote:

The traditional answer to that question is "because Jython cannot support it".

Which is why I prefer to view it as a performance enhancement, rather than a language feature. Deep recursive algorithms would still run under Jython; they would just use a heck of a lot more memory than in CPython.



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