From: Christian Neukirchen Date: 2005-06-15T04:38:16+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby and recursion (Ackermann benchmark) Austin Ziegler writes: > IMO, this is completely inappropriate. If the Perlers are going to > do things to reduce their stack frames, and the Pythonistas are > going to muck around with recursion limits that help their code run > at all ... why can't Rubyists reduce or eliminate the recursion > entirely? The real question is why the Ruby interpreter doesn't do tail-call optimization... > -austin -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org