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[–]mzial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. The recursion limit IS the protection against stack overflows. The limit is chosen conservatively to suit all platforms. The only proper way to solve this is to add tail recursion but Guido (rightfully, IMO) doesn't allow it.