Mikhail Loenko wrote: > My experiments have shown that additional check for null is > insignificant while accessing time of a null address is > substantial.
That in itself is not enough to base any conclusions on. You also need to know the ratio between the exception between thrown and not being thrown. The extra bytecode (or jitted machine code) may very well cause additional paging (due to increased memory pressure) and that has to be factored in as well. Regards, Jeroen
