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Some of my iterations are delightfully recursive (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by merari42 to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

Compiler optimizations like function inlining are your friend.

Especially in functional languages, there are a lot of tricks a compiler can use to output more efficient code due to not needing to worry about possible side effects.

Also, in a lot of cases the performance difference does not matter.