Notice how the recursive Java factorial function does not need an iterative loop. Instead, the code repeatedly calls itself until a stop condition is met. In this case, the condition to terminate the ...

Technically, iterative loops fit typical computer systems better at the hardware level: at the machine code level, a loop is just a test and a conditional jump, whereas recursion (implemented ...

I have seen recursion code implode on itself on the JVM before. In this case, we caught the annoying stack overflow problem before it went into production and I had to work a good number of hours ...