Cristian Diaconu wrote: > I'm trying to understand the possible reasons why filters > have been added to .NET.
I guess it boils down to three issues (for me). 1) Is the performance difference between two-pass and one-pass relevant? I would argue it isn't. Exception handling is expensive. Programmers know that. Making it a little more expensive isn't that big a deal IMHO. 2) As far as I can tell, EXCEPTION_CONTINUE_EXECUTION requires filters. This functionality is *very* nice to have, and while it is currently not implemented, I'm pretty sure future versions will implement it. 3) It maps nicely onto the Windows SEH implementation, but isn't very portable to other OSses. It seems obvious to me that Microsoft would consider both the former and the latter a plus ;-) Regards, Jeroen You can read messages from the Advanced DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from Advanced DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
