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I mean this is correct though
Recursion makes it cheaper to run in the dev's mind, but more expensive to run on the computer. Subroutines are always slower than a simple jump.
Maybe for a Haskell programmer, divide-and-conquer algorithms, or walking trees. But for everything else, I'm skeptical of it being easier to understand than a stack data structure and a loop.
Dynamic programming: Heyyy...
Yeah, you have to be pretty deranged to mix multithreading and recursion together.