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How efficient is exception handling?

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How efficient is exception handling?

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Entering a try block is implemented using setjmp. Throwing an exception is implemented with longjmp. Pattern-matching a datatype against each case variant in the catch clause is a pointer-comparsion. In short, exception handling is fairly lightweight.

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