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I thought you could tune away the trace on creation behavior.

Regardless, I'd be interested in seeing if this is a performance bottleneck. I'd guess it is only relevant on dataset processing. Closer you are to a place that legitimately can toss to a user, more likely you are to not care?

That is, if the common case of an exception is to stop and ask for intervention, is this a concern at all?



> I thought you could tune away the trace on creation behavior.

You can when you implement your own exception type, but not in general (and doing so would break too many things).

Exceptions are thrown and caught quite frequently in Java for "expected" cases, for example when attempting to parse a number from a string which is not a valid number. It's generally not a performance problem, and stack trace collection is probably heavily optimized in the JVM. Nevertheless, it's certainly still a lot slower than C++ single-threaded exceptions. You have to realize that even a factor of 100 slower may be unnoticeable for many use cases, because so much else is going on in the application.


Quickly googling, I see the is an option for implicit exceptions to omit stack frame for fast throw. Seems finicky, though.

But, yes, I realize most of these are probably not noticable.




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