Questions tagged [advantages]
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What is the advantage of little endian format?
Intel processors (and maybe some others) use the little endian format for storage.
I always wonder why someone would want to store the bytes in reverse order. Does this format have any advantages over the big endian format?
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Advantages and disadvantages of using bit masks in database
Not so long ago I talked to my colleague and he was definitely against using bit masks because it is hard to understand all the values that are stored in the database. In my opinion it is not always a bad idea to use them, for example to determine…
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Can all the recursive functions be coded with iterations?
What are the advantages of recursion?
Some programming languages can optimize tail recursion, but, still in general terms, recursion consume more resources than regular loops.
Is it possible to have an iterative version of some recursive function?
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