Re: Why such poor recursive behaviour?

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From: namekuseijin
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:09

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On 31 jul, 05:28, torb...@pc-003.diku.dk (Torben Ægidius Mogensen)
wrote:

> I think the difference is not due to the speed of recursive function
> calls but due to the speed of arithmetic.  Most functional languages
> check for overflow at every arithmetic operations, which adds a
> considerable overhead.  C does not.

Hmm, I thought languages like Ada, Oberon-2 or Java did check for
arithmetic overflow as well.

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