From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-04-04T07:55:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby optimization - re-implement in compiled language?

Ant Sims, April 4:

> The algorithms involve quite deep recursive calls (by necessity)

Are you sure?  Perhaps you need to rethink your algorithm.  Before you
go rewriting your application in another language, a simpler solution is
to rethink your problem/implementation.

Other than that, recursion can be sort of expensive, as Ruby doesn't do
tail-call optimizations (yet),
        nikolai

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