jackpot@lemmy.ml to Programming · 11 months agowhen is it best to use a recursive function vs a for loopmessage-squaremessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up134arrow-down13
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minus-squarebizdelnick@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down2·11 months agoIMHO almost never. Except for tree traversal, maybe.
minus-squarelivingcoderlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoI would agree. Only if the performance is extremely similar but the readability (for some reason) is significantly better for the recursive solution would I choose that.
IMHO almost never. Except for tree traversal, maybe.
I would agree. Only if the performance is extremely similar but the readability (for some reason) is significantly better for the recursive solution would I choose that.