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		flohofwoe on Aug 19, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Parsing protobuf at 2+GB/s: how I learned to love ... Well, if you use recursive code, you better know what you're doing. With or without tail call optimization.

eru on Aug 19, 2024 [–]

Loops are just a special, limited case of recursion.

(And only necessary in languages that have trouble implementing function calls properly.)

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