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May 25, 2026

Recursive DFS vs Iterative Stack: Cycle Detection Performance and Limits

Recursive DFS is 30% faster but crashes at 10K nodes. Iterative survives 50K graphs — here's the stack overhead breakdown and when each wins.

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