[Ilugc] day to day Doubts..
- From: manokaran@xxxxxxxxx (Mano)
- Date: Wed Sep 20 12:46:53 2006
On 9/19/06, Binand Sethumadhavan <binand@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 19/09/06, Girish Venkatachalam <girish1729@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
recursion is a theoretical concept not used much in practice.
Can you spell DNS??
Solving a problem using recursion, though elegant, can be a hog on the
stack. At least one book on data structures/algorithms suggests that after
solving a problem (which is recursive in nature) it is advisable to
reimplement the recursive part in a non recursive way for the sake of
efficiency.
On a philosophical note: all of life is recursive at some level. To find out
more about this read the GEB book (at least the first 100 or so pages -
thats what I could handle :-) )
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