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

Jeremy Hylton jhylton at gmail.com
Fri Jul 16 13:50:30 CEST 2004


On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 19:35:24 -0700, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

My dig was at the Schemers who would rather implement an array as a linked list and then optimize tail-recursion in the hope of getting some performance back -- in vain because they still can't get O(1) indexing.

In all fairness, a serious Schemer would probabliy use the builtin vector type for an array rather than cons cells.

Jeremy



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