recursion

[ravian]

I have a task in hand and there are two options.

Option 1 : Do this task in a simple way
Option 2: Write a method and call in recursively.

Both are producing the required results. My question is, does recursion causes performance issues?

Please advice.

Thanks.

[ShoeNinja]

I always thought that recursion does take up a little bit more memory because it has to keep track of all the pointers. Other than that, I would think that it has the same performance.

[ravian]

So the bottom line is, recursion takes more memory.
Thanks.