Erich,
I timed three methods of filling a block with successive integers from `
1 to 1000. The times are for 1000 iterations. It would seem that head
recursion is rather slow.
Jerry,
>> time-block/reps [a: array 0 for i 1 1000 1 [insert tail a i]] 1000
0:00:11
>> time-block/reps [a: array 0 f
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> >My understanding was that tail recursion ( or its optimized
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