Maximum recursion depth in python

Aahz Maruch aahz at panix.com
Thu Nov 2 12:48:50 EST 2000


In article <87bsvyl25s.fsf at hobbes.home.ruud.org>,
Ruud de Rooij  <*@spam.ruud.org> wrote:
>aahz at panix.com (Aahz Maruch) writes:
>>
>> I believe that
>> Stackless Python has no recursion limits.
>
>Of course it has.  The recursion depth is necessarily limited by the
>amount of memory available.

But that's not a limit of Stackless, per se.  Note, too, that I believe
that one of the goals for Stackless is to eventually create a
tail-recursion module, which would definitely make your statement false.
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