title: Recursion vs iteration in Lisp
body: <p>At this site <a href="http://jatha.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">http://jatha.sourceforge.net/</a> the example for a fast function is through recursion. Is it that recursion is usually faster and of better performance than iteration in Lisp? </p>
  
  <p>Edit: Does Lisp optimize recursion more than other languages?</p>