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Advantages and Disadvantages

Understand the key advantages and disadvantages of recursion in Java programming. Learn why recursion can lead to shorter, simpler code and how it suits certain problem types. Discover the trade-offs in performance and memory usage that come with recursive solutions.

Advantages of Recursion

Recursion has the following advantages:

Shorter code length

For a recursive method, you only need to define the base case and recursive case, so the code is simpler and shorter ...

Recursion decreases the size of the code
Recursion decreases the size of the code