OK, took a look. There is no activation object in the emptytrycatch method. The compiler must know there is no need for it.
On 12/28/13 9:49 PM, "Alex Harui" <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: >I believe that an object (IIRC it was called an activation object and not >a closure) is allocated for any try block. I believe it tracks >information to handle the catching of the error. But it could be that if >there is an empty catch block, it doesn't need that information and just >needs to stop propagation of the error. > >Someday I'll try to look at the byte code and see what it is doing. > >-Alex > >On 12/28/13 9:38 PM, "Justin Mclean" <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>Even curiouser that happens even if the catch block isn't run. Ouch. >>Wonder if we could optimise that somehow? >> >>Justin >
