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Questions about objects such as functions, algorithms or data structures that are expressed using "smaller" instances of themselves.

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Why is tail recursion better than regular recursion?

tail recustion is better becaus a good compiler can optimise it into a goto, thus it doesn't consume any stack space fro the recusrion or waste time returning. foo(a){ m=bar(a); if(z) retur …
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