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Re: Cost of having try-catch statements?

From: Martin Egholm Nielsen <martin at egholm-nielsen dot dk>
To: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:29:39 +0200
Subject: Re: Cost of having try-catch statements?
References: <cfan45$ghk$1@sea.gmane.org> <16664.57901.752260.5036@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com>

> I was wondering: Is there any significant cost in having "unused" > try-catches in my code? > That is, I have a method that 99.99% of the times invoked never throws a > given exception. However, in case it does, I need to log it... The only cost is the unwinder tables, (which are not read into memory unless your exception is thrown) and the handler itself, which may cause some instruction cache presure.

So practically no overhead?

Thanks,
 Martin

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