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submitted 10 months ago by anti_antidote@lemmy.zip to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] stingpie@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Recursion makes it cheaper to run in the dev's mind, but more expensive to run on the computer. Subroutines are always slower than a simple jump.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Recursion makes it cheaper to run in the dev's mind, but more expensive to run on the computer.

Maybe for a Haskell programmer, divide-and-conquer algorithms, or walking trees. But for everything else, I'm skeptical of it being easier to understand than a stack data structure and a loop.

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

Dynamic programming: Heyyy...