While my mind is currently exploding, I had a thought.
I once had a teacher who said that the only problem where using recursion was
actually a benefit was the Towers of Hanoi. It's always the problem used in the
textbooks. He said that he could re-write any recursion algorithm using a
boolean variable and a while loop and it would be more efficient.
So, I'm curious. Has anyone come across a problem where recursion gave a
performance improvement over using a loop?
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