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Now I think I can explain tail call optimization via an escalator analogy.
Circular, "Penrose Stairs" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_stairs) might be a better extension to the student's staircase model.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Improv
n-dimensional spreadsheet with a logical data model (including hierarchies) rather than rows and columns:
Net Worth := Assets - Liabilities
Mint
perhaps you should change your Amazon password...
Two simple suggestions:
The author mentioned reading in files with x "number of lines". If they are then parsing the lines into some structured format, there are likely many opportunities to look for low cardinality aspects and to reduce object tenuring by pooling strings using either String.intern or a hashset.
They should also consider increasing the eden size.
The two are uncorrelated.
Then you haven't really absorbed the value of the prior posts.
> How long will there be computer science departments?
Um...isn't that a form of the Halting Problem? ;D
>How often do plane stowaways fall from the sky?
just once
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