[Python-ideas] A Continuations Compromise in Python

[George Sakkis]

On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 3:02 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:

> Just tossing a wild idea out there... is it conceivable to build a
> decorator that optimizes a tail-call recursive function?

Yes, check http://code.activestate.com/recipes/496691/. The caveat is
that for "small" values it actually pessimizes rather than optimizes
the function ("Note also that these decorators are not optimizing and
for small argument values they are actually far slower.")

George