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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