Advantages & Disadvantages of Recursion

Posted 2022-07-29 ireneyanglan

Recursion is a technique in which a problem is solved by itself; it‘s a technique to solve most Divide & Conquer problems.

Differences between Divide & Conquer problem and Dynamic Programming problem:

Sub-problems of DP usually have some relations, while Divide & Conquer is not.

Advantages

• Easy to understand.

Disadvantages

• Usually slower than iteration
• Stack overflow risk: Each step will recursively call a function, which will significantly occupy a lot stack memory.
• Difficult to debug and trace value.