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When there's no TCO, when to worry about blowing the stack?
Every single time there's a discussion about a new programming language targetting the JVM, there are inevitably people saying things like:
"The JVM doesn't support tail-call optimization, so I ...
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Local Stack vs Call Stack
On the matter of Recursion:
When you create a recursive function, you create a call stack. Ok, no problem; However, a comment on this page (look for comments by "LKM") triggered my curiosity (and ...
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Is there a way to display the stack during recursion method?
I'm trying to learn recursion. I copied this bit of code from my book and added the displays to help me trace what the method is doing and when.
public static void main(String[] args) {
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