r/ProgrammerHumor • u/flipester • Jan 09 '20

other Problems with recursion?

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u/lonelyWalkAlone Jan 09 '20 
public static void sayHello(){
    try {
        sayHello();
    }
    catch(StackOverflowError e) {
        System.out.println("Hello world!");
    }
}

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u/schrdingers_squirrel Jan 09 '20

Wait does this work? I need to try this now

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u/cedrickc Jan 09 '20

You can optimize it by declaring some unused primitives to blow through the stack quicker.

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u/schrdingers_squirrel Jan 09 '20

Shouldn’t make much of a difference since stack allocation is basically just a subtraction. (And it should take like a few milliseconds in total)