Re: Recursion limit: a good idea to ignore?
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- Subject: [mg82232] Re: Recursion limit: a good idea to ignore?
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:18:49 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <feutsm$st$1@smc.vnet.net>
Hi,
if you know that your calculation comes to an
end ignore it with
Block[{$RecursionLimit=Infinity},
yourCode
]
Regards
Jens
Will Robertson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've written a potentially inefficient algorithm to combine multiple
> joined polygons into a single one. On large plots I get the warning
> "$RecursionLimit::reclim: Recursion depth of 256 exceeded." and a
> bunch of errors because of this.
>
> Now, should I try and re-write my program (the speed of it is not
> entirely critical) to avoid recursion or is it "okay" to locally
> remove the recursion limit for such code?
>
> I'll try and post an actual example of my code once I've tidied it up
> a little.
>
> Many thanks,
> Will
>
>