Python is not bad ;-)

[Ian Kelly]

On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:
> Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus at gmx.de>:
>
>> That's why I still think it is a microoptimization, which helps only
>> in some specific cases.
>
> It isn't done for performance. It's done to avoid a stack overflow
> exception.

If your tree is balanced, then the number of items you would need to
have to get a stack overflow exception would be approximately 2 **
1000, which you can't possibly hope to fit into memory.

If your tree is unbalanced and you're getting a stack overflow
exception, then maybe you should think about balancing it.