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		andi999 on Sept 19, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: All the jobs I failed to get Tell me, how many recursive functions are in your companies code base. (Or course you might not be allowed to tell; but do you know the number?)

jimbokun on Sept 21, 2020 [–]

No idea, I know I've written a few.

andi999 on Sept 22, 2020 | [–]

Thanks. How did you take tje stack size into consideration?

ido on Sept 23, 2020 | | [–]

I would guess they'd try to use tail call recursion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail_call

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