Recursive functions and RAM

Question

In recursive functions which manages RAM better, C++ or Python ?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

That depends if you want better performance or an easier developer experience managing memory leaks in RAM.

The most efficient use of RAM and best performance goes to well written c++. c++ uses less RAM for a similarly good implementation since all data types are known and optimized at compile-time. For example, an int in c++ will take 4 bytes of RAM using most modern c++ compilers. Python's number usually takes 28 bytes. More details are given at: https://pythonspeed.com/articles/python-integers-memory/

The easiest management of RAM for programmers goes to Python. In Python, you can largely ignore memory leak concerns because it is all garbage collected like in Java. C++ requires programmers to be very careful about freeing up all blocks of memory when they're done using them.