Run results for: Try/catch performance (JSON parse)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0

Browser: Firefox 115

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Without try/catch

5.2M/s

Try/catch

206K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Without try/catch	5,185,550 Ops/sec
Try/catch	206,258 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div id="test"></div>

Tests:

Try/catch
try { JSON.parse('{"name":"John", "age":31, "city":"New York"}'); } catch(error) { console.log(error); } finally { console.log("!"); }
Without try/catch
JSON.parse('{"name":"John", "age":31, "city":"New York"}');