Python is not bad ;-)

[Mark Lawrence]

On 02/05/2015 14:50, Joonas Liik wrote:

[top posting fixed]

>
> On 2 May 2015 at 14:42, Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:
>
>> Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus at gmx.de>:
>>
>>> That's why I still think it is a microoptimization, which helps only
>>> in some specific cases.
>>
>> It isn't done for performance. It's done to avoid a stack overflow
>> exception.
>>
>>
>> Marko
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> I agree, stack overflow is literally the main issue that ive run in to
> (tree traversal)
> I've yet to refactor recursion to iterative for speed, but i have done so
> to avoid hitting the stack size limit.
>
> Tree traversal and similar problems in particular lend themselves well to
> recursion and are not quite as trivial to do in an iterative fashion.
>
> I've also found myself constructing an ad-hoc trampoline at least once just
> to sneak past the stack limit.
> (probably very evil but it worked and it wasn't nearly as ugly as it sounds
> like so ill live with it..)
>
>

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-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence