I wouldn't necessarily expect to see throwing show up on a statistical profile. I would expect to see (and very much have seen) throwing showing up as a huge la

I wouldn't necessarily expect to see throwing show up on a statistical profile. I would expect to see (and very much have seen) throwing showing up as a huge latency spike, leading to user-visible non-responsiveness. Especially in a cold situation (first throw after launch, or throwing after pages have been ejected), a surprising number of memory pages need to be populated to throw an exception.