> Like I said, performance predictability, not raw performance. Your argument makes absolutely no sense. Exceptions are used to handle exceptional events, the

> Like I said, performance predictability, not raw performance. Your argument makes absolutely no sense. Exceptions are used to handle exceptional events, the kind of stuff that would crash and shutdown your program. Exceptions are used to establish sanity checkpoints where any exceptional event can be caught and either recover from it or fail gracefully. Performance is measured on the happy path, and exceptions fall in the exact opposite of the happy path.