[Python-Dev] Proper tail recursion

[Martin v. Löwis]

Christopher T King wrote:
> Which is why I prefer to view it as a performance enhancement, rather than
> a language feature.  Deep recursive algorithms would still run under
> Jython; they would just use a heck of a lot more memory than in CPython.

In that case, any implementation of tail recursion should still consider
the recursion limit.

Regards,
Martin