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On: Recursive Problems Benefit from Recursive Solutions

[adafactor]

PL-specific problem, but: the Rust borrow checker tends to give you a lot of trouble when writing iterative algorithms on nonlinear data structures, because it has trouble reasoning about partial borrows.

The upcoming Polonius borrow checker is supposed to solve this, but it's still in alpha...

On: Recursive Problems Benefit from Recursive Solutions

[adafactor]

Where on earth do you work? This is unusual...