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stacking many tensors hits recursion limit

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Description

from tinygrad import Tensor, Device
Device.DEFAULT="CPU"
tensors = [Tensor.empty(28,28) for _ in range(6131)]
Tensor.stack(*tensors).realize()

failed with RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object

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Start with the provided reproduction and trace Tensor.stack(*tensors).realize() to identify where recursion grows with 6,131 tensors. Confirm the fix by running the example without a RecursionError and add or update a regression test if the relevant test location is found.

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python
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machine-learning
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