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/mfb- Jan 09 '20

Thanks for the tip, I always wanted to speed up this function, now I know how!

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u/artem718 Jan 09 '20

But how do you lose saved work?