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Recursion vs. work list #158

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dabrahams opened this issue Aug 13, 2022 · 0 comments
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Recursion vs. work list #158

dabrahams opened this issue Aug 13, 2022 · 0 comments

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Recursive algorithms that can't tail-call optimized can still be implemented without recursion by using an auxiliary work list (essentially replacing the call stack with a dynamically allocated array). It would be useful to see some discussion of the tradeoffs inherent in that approach.
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