On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Wacek Kusnierczyk <waclaw.marcin.kusnierc...@idi.ntnu.no> wrote: > Stavros Macrakis wrote: >> Tested in: R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22) / Windows
> when i run these examples, the execution seems to get into an endless > loop with no error messages whatsoever. how much time does it take > before you get the error? (using r 2.8.0 and also the latest r-devel). In 2.8.1/Windows (32 bit), they return immediately, though the stack-overflow case is about 13x slower. > system.time(for (i in 1:100) {trySilent((function(a=a)(a))())}) user system elapsed 0.67 0.00 0.67 > system.time(for (i in 1:100) {trySilent((function(a=a)as.POSIXct(a))())}) user system elapsed 0.05 0.00 0.05 Are you running under 64 bits? How long does a vanilla infinite recursion take to fail on your machine? I get: > system.time(for (i in 1:100) trySilent({fff <- function()fff(); fff()})) user system elapsed 0.27 0.00 0.26 -s ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel