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> > It is well known that claims of efficiency and inefficiency mean nothing > > unless backed up with numbers, for programmers' intuition on the subject > > is notoriously in error. > > 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.
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