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Drives are large so there’s less reason for tail recursion if you stack lives on disk anyway. Also Common Lisp does not require tail recursion and the traditio
by dan-robertson 8y ago
Drives are large so there’s less reason for tail recursion if you stack lives on disk anyway.
Also Common Lisp does not require tail recursion and the traditional style doesn’t really use it either
- mrighele 8y agoI was thinking more about performance than space. If you hit the disk for every recursive call (not sure if it is the case, I can't read COBOL) the performance is probably going to be terrible even if the files are memory mapped. Optimized tail recursion would avoid most of that.