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[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 51 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

"I'm writing a recursive method with threads to optimize the CPU usage in a 0.02%" THIS IS A NONSENSICAL STATEMENT MADE BY DERANGED PEOPLE

I mean this is correct though

[–] stingpie@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks 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 6 points 3 weeks 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 3 points 3 weeks ago

Dynamic programming: Heyyy...

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, you have to be pretty deranged to mix multithreading and recursion together.