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Learning JavaScript Data Structures and Algorithms - Third Edition
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Learning JavaScript Data Structures and Algorithms - Third Edition

by Loiane Avancini
April 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
426 pages
10h 19m
English
Packt Publishing
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JavaScript limitation on the call stack size

What happens when we forget to add a base case to stop the recursive calls of a function? It will not be executed indefinitely; the browser will throw an error, which is known as a stack overflow error.

Each browser has its own limitations, and we can use the following code to do some testing:

let i = 0;
function recursiveFn() {
  i++;
  recursiveFn();
}

try {
  recursiveFn();
} catch (ex) {
  console.log('i = ' + i + ' error: ' + ex);
}

In Chrome version 65, the function is executed 15,662 times, and the browser throws the error RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded. In Firefox version 59, the function is executed 188,641 times, and the browser throws the error InternalError: too much recursion ...

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