It was thus said that the Great Tony Finch once stated: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Sean Conner wrote: > > It was thus said that the Great Yossi Kreinin once stated: > > > > > > Can you name a platform where no extra instructions in the normal flow > > > path are generated when exceptions are enabled? > > > > VMS on the VAX architecture, and there, it's only one instruction > > overhead. > > Er, so that's a "no" then.
But it's half of the other architectures listed. And it only affects those routines that actually catch exceptions. -spc (In fact, I'm having a difficult time thinking it could be zero instructions ... )