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RE: The subsetting has begun

• To: "'John Cowan'" <cowan@m...>
• Subject: RE: The subsetting has begun
• From: "Martin Soukup" <martin@d...>
• Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 09:37:58 -0500
• Cc: "'Karl Waclawek'" <karl@w...>, <xml-dev@l...>,"'Elliotte Rusty Harold'" <elharo@m...>
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• In-reply-to: <E18mSQ6-0001Cy-00@m...>

> From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan@m...]
> > I don't know why we argue about this being a good practice in Java.
> > Although it is an integral part of serious error handling, even in
> > J2SDK1.4, exception paths are about 3 orders of magnitude slower
than
> > return values (I just retested this to make sure its an accurate
> > statement for recent VMs). So as a regular course of processing
> > exceptions are *not* the right solution for most applications.
> 
> If execution speed were everything, we'd write all our code in
assembly
> language.

Agreed, but the different between a bicycle and the space shuttle cannot
be ignored. Not to mention, many of us still do use assembler.

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