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Associated article: Considering Recursion

Tags: Open Source     Parallel     Design    

Published source code accompanying the article by Arch D. Robison in which he examines some of the problems with recursion, including entangled control flow, which hurts readability, reuse, and optimization.

					Considering Recursion 
by Arch D. Robison

Listing One
//-----------------------------------
// Non-recursive version.
//-----------------------------------
   ....
   for (int i=0; i<n; i++)
        for (int j=0; j<n; j++)
            a[i][j] += b[i]*c[j];
   ....
//-----------------------------------
// Recursive #1 (classical tail call)
//-----------------------------------
void ...
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