> > Do we consider a difference of 0.075/100000s vs 0.115/100000s that big a > > deal when compared to (e.g.) establishing a database connection? > > The first part, the 0.075 vs 0.115... yeah, we care. That's 50% > slower. But the thing is, the math with exceptions is kind of knowable > because one of the key aspects of its cost is walking the call stack. > How deep is the call stack going to be when a given library throws an > exception? You don't really know.
Oops, key typo: kind of _unknowable_.
