NightOwlMax & Pchelkin
Hey Pchelkin, I’ve been wrestling with a recursive depth‑first search that keeps blowing the stack on large graphs. I’ve tried memoization and tail recursion, but I’m still not sure if there’s a cleaner, more efficient approach. How do you usually handle recursion depth and stack limits in your projects, especially when you’re burning late‑night coffee?
Yeah, deep DFS is a classic stack overflow problem. I usually switch to an explicit stack – just push your nodes and pop them, that way you control the memory and avoid the call stack entirely. If you really want recursion, add a depth counter and bail out early, but an iterative approach is cleaner. Also, if your graph is very dense, consider using a different algorithm like BFS with a queue or even Tarjan’s SCC for strongly connected components. And of course, keep that coffee flowing – it fuels the debugging marathon.