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Re: The subsetting has begun

• To: "Martin Soukup" <martin@d...>
• Subject: Re: The subsetting has begun
• From: "Karl Waclawek" <karl@w...>
• Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 10:27:36 -0500
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
• References: <006001c2da80$70aead00$6c64a8c0@DOGGIE>

> > This is no intuition. I can whip up a quick demo in Delphi
> > (I already did - took 5 minutes) which shows that passing a Boolean
> result
> > up from a 5 levels deep nested procedure call executed in a loop is at
> > least
> > 100 times as fast as throwing and catching an exception for the same
> > purpose.
> > I can post or e-mail it if you really want to see it.
> 
> I did the same in Java, and it is well over 1000 times slower. I agree
> with John that performance isn't everything, but 1000 times slower using
> the same technology is, IMO, completely unreasonable.

I agree.
However, one can also make a strong argument against liberal use of
exceptions for controlling *normal* program flow simply by observing
how readable and understandable the code becomes, since you now have
two ways of doing the same thing.

Karl

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