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The test is invalid because you are calling the function inside the loop function - this invalidates one of the loop's most prominent performance advantages which is the lack of instruction jumps (including, for function calls, stack assignment, stack popping etc'). If you were performing a task within a loop (no just called a function) vs. performing a task within a recursive function you would get different results. (P.S. performance is a question of the actual task algorithm, where sometimes instruction jumps are cheaper then the computations required to avoid them).

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2016-04-10 20:37:55 +00:00
Commented Apr 10, 2016 at 20:37

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