JS exercise to identify points connected to the edge of the matrix and clean the points that are islanded.
https://maper77.github.io/cleanIslands/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tYoVx0QoN0
When I saw the challenge proposed in this video, I decided to stop watching the video and think of a solution, then I saw that I came to a very similar solution, I believe that for this case it is the most logical way to solve it.
--> Uncaught RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded
Using a recursive function works great for a small array, but an array that is too large ends up generating a "Maximum call stack size exceeded" error. To test the limit of the recursive function I used a 21x100 matrix fully filled with '1', which resulted in 2,100 iterations of the function, whereas with a much larger matrix the non-recursive function had no problem.
The solution found was to stop using recursive function and make a stack of values to be checked that feeds itself. I noticed a performance increase of about 5%.
I kept the 2 versions for testing and comparisons.
cleanIslands.js
cleanIslandsNoRecursive.js
