I Found the Exact Recursion Depth That Crashes Node
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Plain recursion crashed at exactly 9,275 calls deep on my default stack An iterative rewrite walked a 2,000,000-node list in 13.37ms with zero crash risk That's 215 times deeper than the point where recursion gave up One while loop replaced a function that worked fine in testing and failed in produ…
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- 2026-10-09 08:38 · DEV Community — AI
I Found the Exact Recursion Depth That Crashes Node