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From: David Thomas <david_hd@yahoo.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Reporting on sucess/failure of tail recursion
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:28:21 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051203002821.44840.qmail@web30515.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)

Particularly with respect to list operations,
"non-tail-recursive" usually implies stack space used
is O(n) to the length of the list, whereas "tail
recursive" implies O(1).  I, for one, would love to
see these figures explicitly, instead.

--- skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> What needs to be documented for a library function
is its 
> complexity (time/space etc). In this sense the
documentation
> of the C++ Standard Library should be taken as an
examplar.



		
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             reply	other threads:[~2005-12-03  0:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-03  0:28 David Thomas [this message]
2005-12-04  4:11 ` Andres Varon
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-12-02  9:09 Erik de Castro Lopo
2005-12-02  9:13 ` [Caml-list] " Jonathan Roewen
2005-12-02  9:25   ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2005-12-02  9:29 ` basile
2005-12-02 10:16   ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2005-12-02 15:17     ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2005-12-02 23:58       ` skaller
2005-12-02 10:45   ` David MENTRE

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