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exception flow control vs. if-else
A comparison between utilizing a thrown exception to control flow vs. an if-else.
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 134
Operating system:
Mac OS X 10.15.7
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
one year ago
Test name
Executions per second
try-catch control flow (no exception)
153010672.0 Ops/sec
try-catch control flow (thrown exception)
292693.6 Ops/sec
if-else (hits if)
155882288.0 Ops/sec
if-else (hits else)
160467424.0 Ops/sec
Tests:
try-catch control flow (no exception)
const ok = true; let res; try { if (!ok) { throw new Error('ok = false'); } res = 1 + 1; } catch (e) { res = 1 + 2; }
try-catch control flow (thrown exception)
const ok = false; let res; try { if (!ok) { throw new Error('ok = false'); } res = 1 + 1; } catch (e) { res = 1 + 2; }
if-else (hits if)
const ok = true; let res; if (ok) { res = 1 + 1; } else { res = 1 + 2; }
if-else (hits else)
const ok = false; let res; if (ok) { res = 1 + 1; } else { res = 1 + 2; }