Re: [Caml-list] Reporting on sucess/failure of tail recursion

[Andres Varon <avaron@gmail.com>]

While exploring the (undocumented) options of ocamlopt I discovered  
once that -dlinear explicitly says if a function is a tailcall or  
not. It has worked consistently for me whenever I needed to check  
this afterwards.

Andres

On Dec 2, 2005, at 7:28 PM, David Thomas wrote:

> 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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