While true, some other bits of advice here (like pulling your try/catch into a separate function) are very V8-specific and may well produce _worse_ code in othe

While true, some other bits of advice here (like pulling your try/catch into a separate function) are very V8-specific and may well produce _worse_ code in other implementations. http://jsfiddle.net/G83mW/14/ http://jsfiddle.net/G83mW/14/ has a testcase for the try/catch thing that is interesting to compare in different browsers...