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Re: Process Shared Mutex

Da: email@hidden
Oggetto: Re: Process Shared Mutex
Data: 27 febbraio 2004 14:22:24 CET
A: email@hidden

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>> __ iteration is human, recursion is divine __
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>> __ iteration is human, recursion is divine __
>
> Now I know you're human ... ;-)
>
> one more thing: recursion might be divine ideawise, but in real live
> ...
>
> I once wrote some Java Application that parsed a whole website by
> following the links.
>
> At first i did this in a recursive manner. The result was that I runned
> out of memory very soon.
>
> I had to rewrite it that way that links weren't followed and parsed
> immediately but written into a task list. After a page was parsed the
> next
> would be taken from that task list: iterative solution. The required
> ammount of memory was much less than before: recursion might result in
> avalanche like effects if one step in recursion results in many
> sub-recursions (like a chain reaction in a atomic bomb).
>
> morale of the story:
>
> recursion might be an interesting concept to teach and suitable for
> small
> tasks. But if you're going to process large chunks of data you're
> almost
> ever better of using a iterative approach.
>
> philosophical morale of the story ;-):
>
> while our world possibly was made by (a) god it is not made for gods.
>
> greetings, Lars
>

i know too, but the question was another :-]



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C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but
when you do, it blows away your whole leg
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