Ars Technica

"Don't ever use recursion in production code"

At a job interview on Friday, I had to write code, and one of the things that came up when we were talking about implementation of a concept was recursion. The director of the group said to me "Don't ...
EDN

A Simple and Efficient FFT Implementation in C++, Part I

Vlodymyr teaches at Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany. He can be reached at [email protected]. This article provided courtesy ofDr. Dobb’s Journal. This article describes ...
Ars Technica

In Linux man pages, does Recurse always mean literally recursion?

In linux man pages, e.g. man ls, it says -R --recursive. I can see how ls can be recursive, by recursive I mean the proper programming concept. ls could say, "A: list all files in the directory then ...
ZDNet

The subtle art of really big data: Recursion Pharma maps the body

Whenever machine learning is applied to a given field of industry, defining the objective is one of the most salient questions. Just what are you trying to find out? In the biological sciences, that ...
EDN

A Simple and Efficient FFT Implementation in C++: Part II

The implemented template class recursion has P levels. Every FFT calculation process runs from level P to level 1, while the level 1 is empty (Listing Three, in part one of this article). Some ...