That's why when dealing with very large data sets you might want to prefer iteration over recursion.

Lastly, unless you're allocating (on the stack) in your loop, the loop all by itself will not overflow the stack, even if it never terminates.

I did read the article, the above is what I'm responding to.

It's easy to "expect". It's hard to "do".

Because non-Windows programmers already have plenty of better, ad-free places to go for help.