Recap
Recursions are a valuable tool in programming, but a simple implementation of recursion is often not useful for practical problems. Functional interfaces, lambda expression, and infinite Streams can help us design tail-call optimization to make recursions feasible in such cases. Furthermore, we can combine recursions and memoization to make execution of overlapping recursions really fast.
In the next chapter we’ll explore a practical example that employs lambda expressions and then we’ll parallelize it with little effort.
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