Tail recursion in elisp

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1 total messages Started by Mark Leone Tue, 01 Aug 1989 21:25

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Author: Mark Leone
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1989 21:25

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Does gnu-emacs lisp deal with tail recursion in a reasonable way?  In
particular, is it possible for a tail recursive function to cause a
stack overflow?  

How does the speed of a tail recursive function compare to a
corresponding iterative function?


Mark Leone
mleone@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu

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