What’s the difference between recursion, memoization & dynamic programming? [duplicate]

Consider calculating the fibonacci sequence: Pure recursion: int fib(int x) { if (x < 2) return 1; return fib(x-1) + fib(x-2); } results in exponential number of calls. Recursion with memoization/DP: int fib(int x) { static vector<int> cache(N, -1); int& result = cache[x]; if (result == -1) { if (x < 2) result = 1; … Read more

Hitting Maximum Recursion Depth Using Pickle / cPickle

From the docs: Trying to pickle a highly recursive data structure may exceed the maximum recursion depth, a RuntimeError will be raised in this case. You can carefully raise this limit with sys.setrecursionlimit(). Although your trie implementation may be simple, it uses recursion and can lead to issues when converting to a persistent data structure. … Read more

How to recursively list directories in C on Linux?

Why does everyone insist on reinventing the wheel again and again? POSIX.1-2008 standardized the nftw() function, also defined in the Single Unix Specification v4 (SuSv4), and available in Linux (glibc, man 3 nftw), OS X, and most current BSD variants. It is not new at all. Naïve opendir()/readdir()/closedir() -based implementations almost never handle the cases … Read more

Does C++ limit recursion depth?

The limit in C++ is due to the maximum size of the stack. That’s typically less than the size of RAM by quite a few orders of magnitude, but is still pretty large. (Luckily, large things like string contents are typically held not on the stack itself.) The stack limit is typically tunable at the … Read more

Recursion vs loops

I favor recursive solutions when: The implementation of the recursion is much simpler than the iterative solution, usually because it exploits a structural aspect of the problem in a way that the iterative approach cannot I can be reasonably assured that the depth of the recursion will not cause a stack overflow, assuming we’re talking … Read more

Implement recursive lambda function using Java 8

I usually use (once-for-all-functional-interfaces defined) generic helper class which wraps the variable of the functional interface type. This approach solves the problem with the local variable initialization and allows the code to look more clearly. In case of this question the code will look as follows: // Recursive.java // @param <I> – Functional Interface Type … Read more

How can I make recursive templates in AngularJS when using nested objects?

I think that this could help you. It is from an answer I found on a Google Group about recursive elements in a tree. The suggestion is from Brendan Owen: http://jsfiddle.net/brendanowen/uXbn6/8/ <script type=”text/ng-template” id=”field_renderer.html”> {{data.label}} <ul> <li ng-repeat=”field in data.fields” ng-include=”‘field_renderer.html'”></li> </ul> </script> <ul ng-controller=”NestedFormCtrl”> <li ng-repeat=”field in formData” ng-include=”‘field_renderer.html'”></li> </ul> The proposed solution is … Read more