Does a reference in a recursive function fill up the stack?
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I know that in a recursive functions you should try to use as less parameters as possible and make as much global, in order to fill the stack less, but does it make any difference that instead of making things global, you use them with a reference? I know that this might be different on different compilers. I am using C++ with the compiler GCC.
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I know that in a recursive functions you should try to use as less parameters as possible and make as much global, in order to fill the stack less, but does it make any difference that instead of making things global, you use them with a reference? I know that this might be different on different compilers. I am using C++ with the compiler GCC.
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References will take up less memory when passing to a function than a whole object will. The issue is with a recursive function, depending on how reentrant it is, it will take up that much space in the parameter list * the size of your parameters. If your recursive function never quits, regardless of the size of the parameters or any parameters at all, it will cause a stack overflow. So unless you are going from a large object in parameter list to a reference, and you have very limited memory space, making sure it exits correctly is probably the bigger concern. Tl;Dr references take less space
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I know that in a recursive functions you should try to use as less parameters as possible and make as much global, in order to fill the stack less, but does it make any difference that instead of making things global, you use them with a reference? I know that this might be different on different compilers. I am using C++ with the compiler GCC.
recursion gcc reference stack
asked Nov 12 at 3:13
Antoniu Fic
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I know that in a recursive functions you should try to use as less parameters as possible and make as much global, in order to fill the stack less, but does it make any difference that instead of making things global, you use them with a reference? I know that this might be different on different compilers. I am using C++ with the compiler GCC.
recursion gcc reference stack
recursion gcc reference stack
asked Nov 12 at 3:13
Antoniu Fic
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asked Nov 12 at 3:13
Antoniu Fic
1
asked Nov 12 at 3:13
Antoniu Fic
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asked Nov 12 at 3:13
Antoniu Fic
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asked Nov 12 at 3:13
Antoniu Fic
1
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References will take up less memory when passing to a function than a whole object will. The issue is with a recursive function, depending on how reentrant it is, it will take up that much space in the parameter list * the size of your parameters. If your recursive function never quits, regardless of the size of the parameters or any parameters at all, it will cause a stack overflow. So unless you are going from a large object in parameter list to a reference, and you have very limited memory space, making sure it exits correctly is probably the bigger concern. Tl;Dr references take less space
– DMarczak
Nov 12 at 3:26
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References will take up less memory when passing to a function than a whole object will. The issue is with a recursive function, depending on how reentrant it is, it will take up that much space in the parameter list * the size of your parameters. If your recursive function never quits, regardless of the size of the parameters or any parameters at all, it will cause a stack overflow. So unless you are going from a large object in parameter list to a reference, and you have very limited memory space, making sure it exits correctly is probably the bigger concern. Tl;Dr references take less space
– DMarczak
Nov 12 at 3:26
References will take up less memory when passing to a function than a whole object will. The issue is with a recursive function, depending on how reentrant it is, it will take up that much space in the parameter list * the size of your parameters. If your recursive function never quits, regardless of the size of the parameters or any parameters at all, it will cause a stack overflow. So unless you are going from a large object in parameter list to a reference, and you have very limited memory space, making sure it exits correctly is probably the bigger concern. Tl;Dr references take less space
– DMarczak
Nov 12 at 3:26
References will take up less memory when passing to a function than a whole object will. The issue is with a recursive function, depending on how reentrant it is, it will take up that much space in the parameter list * the size of your parameters. If your recursive function never quits, regardless of the size of the parameters or any parameters at all, it will cause a stack overflow. So unless you are going from a large object in parameter list to a reference, and you have very limited memory space, making sure it exits correctly is probably the bigger concern. Tl;Dr references take less space
– DMarczak
Nov 12 at 3:26
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References will take up less memory when passing to a function than a whole object will. The issue is with a recursive function, depending on how reentrant it is, it will take up that much space in the parameter list * the size of your parameters. If your recursive function never quits, regardless of the size of the parameters or any parameters at all, it will cause a stack overflow. So unless you are going from a large object in parameter list to a reference, and you have very limited memory space, making sure it exits correctly is probably the bigger concern. Tl;Dr references take less space
– DMarczak
Nov 12 at 3:26