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From: peb@acad.UUCP (Paul Baclaski)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Subject: Re: tail recursion optimization
Summary: clarification
Keywords: TRO tail recursion optimization garbage collection
Message-ID: <564@acad.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jul 90 23:30:44 GMT
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Organization: Autodesk Inc., Sausalito, Ca.
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This is a correction to my original posting of this subject:

The ELK version is 1.0 not 7.0.

Also, it occurred to me that the set! might generate garbage, so 
I tried it again without the set! (initializing r and passing it
in the recursive call as (/ (random) 2147483648)) and it generates
slightly less garbage (8% less), but still enough to make the 
question valid.


Paul E. Baclaski
Autodesk, Inc.
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