Recursing through a website

[Daniel Klein]

Aahz,

This is kinda off-topic for this group, but a btree with only 3-6 elements
per node would indicate that either the size of each element is very large
or the node size is every small. A typical buffer on a computer is at least
1k and many times it is 4k or 8k. A btree is best optimized by ensuring that
the minimum size for each node is 1/2 the node size so that when the node
degenerates to less than 1/2, it merges with its sibling along with one key
from its parent.

I have coded btrees both recursively and non-recursively (albeit in other
languages) and have noticed a marked performance gain with the latter. Does
recursion on Python have a perfermence 'cost'?

Dan



"Aahz Maruch" <aahz at panix.com> wrote in message
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> In article <qmdS5.273$OC.69644 at typhoon.aracnet.com>,
> Daniel Klein <DanielK at aracnet.com> wrote:
> >
> >Are you saying that Python does not support recursion to more that 6
levels?
> >A Btree of order 100 can store a minimum of 1 trillion entries (and a
> >maximum of 65 trillion). At 7 levels, this jumps to 107 trillion and 132
> >million trillion entries.
>
> Of course not.  I was thinking of a "typical" B-Tree with three to six
> elements per node, which would be around fifteen levels deep for
> "billions".  Still way under Python's recursion limit, which I've never
> seen at less than a thousand -- but my point was to emphasize that you
> don't want a Real World [tm] algorithm to come anywhere close to the
> recursion limit.  A B-Tree (or even a binary tree, really) fits that
> goal.
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