On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 04:10, Fergus Henderson wrote: > On 20-Mar-2003, Thong Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Exceptions can be much slower than using error codes, however, it > > should be noted that the path of error is usually the least walked path. > > Most of the time your code will not throw exceptions. When exceptions > > aren't thrown there is *very* little overhead. > > Are you sure? Have you measured it? > > Note that the exception handling scheme used on Windows requires some > overhead for "try" statements even in the case when no exception is thrown.
What? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ How can that be the case? If the catch does not fire then the try should not be evaluated, right? This is something I've missed completely. /Richard -- Ph.D. Student Dept. of Informatics and Mathematics HTU _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list