12.8 - Performance Considerations
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Practice Questions
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What happens if a recursive function does not reach a base case?
💡 Hint: Think about what happens in the call stack.
Define memoization in your own words.
💡 Hint: Why do we want to cache results?
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What is a common risk associated with deep recursion?
💡 Hint: Think about what happens when there are too many nested functions.
True or False: Memoization improves performance by recalculating results for previously computed inputs.
💡 Hint: Reflect on the purpose of storing previous results.
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Implement a Fibonacci function using recursion with memoization. Analyze its performance against a simple recursive version without memoization.
💡 Hint: Remember to use a data structure to hold computed Fibonacci values for memoization.
Design a recursive factorial function that avoids stack overflow by implementing tail recursion. Compare it to the standard recursive implementation.
💡 Hint: Tail recursion can be optimized by the compiler to prevent stack overflow problems.
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