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submitted 3 months ago by anti_antidote@lemmy.zip to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] stingpie@lemmy.world 14 points 3 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 6 points 3 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 3 months ago

Dynamic programming: Heyyy...