Performance win when?  During normal execution or on the throw?

On Dec 7, 2:39 am, Johannes Rudolph <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Cross-posting to the JVM Languages group. You might want to see the
> history of this thread as well:
>
> http://old.nabble.com/-scala--r19952%3A-performance-degradation-to266...
>
> Can anyone from the experts comment on the fact why using null as
> exception type ('any' in javap) in a handler instead of Throwable
> results in such a big performance win (> 2x) ? Is it a special
> performance optimization in the Hotspot VM for finally clauses? Is it
> known and documented somewhere?
>
> Thanks,
> Johannes
>
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Lukas Rytz <[email protected]> wrote:
> > amazing.. this probably means that we can speed up any exception
> > handler catching `Throwable`.
>
> > On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 19:14, Paul Phillips <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 05:36:20PM +0100, Lukas Rytz wrote:
> >> > Thanks for trimming it down. I'll have a look.
>
> >> Also, I reproduced the slowdown and verified that this diff alone is
> >> enough to induce it.
>
> >> -          (NoSymbol, expectedType, exhCtx => {
> >> +          (ThrowableClass, expectedType, exhCtx => {
>
> >> --
> >> Paul Phillips      | Where there's smoke, there's mirrors!
> >> Future Perfect     |
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>
> --
> Johannes
>
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> Johannes Rudolphhttp://virtual-void.net

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