[gnu.emacs.lisp.manual] Tail recursion in elisp

mleone@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Mark Leone) (08/02/89)

Does gnu-emacs lisp deal with tail recursion in a reasonable way?  In
particular, is it possible for a tail recursive function to cause a
stack overflow?  

How does the speed of a tail recursive function compare to a
corresponding iterative function?


Mark Leone
mleone@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu