Exceptions Are Extremely Expensive… Do This Instead

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How should you handle errors in your code? This has been a topic of many discussions, and I want to share my opinion. One school of thought suggests using exceptions for flow control. This is not a good approach because it makes the code harder to reason about. The caller must know the implementation details and which exceptions to handle. Exceptions are for exceptional situations. Exceptions are also costly and degrade performance. If you don't believe me, we'll prove it in this video.

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Chapters
0:00 Are exceptions expensive?
3:14 Exceptions for flow control
7:38 Performance testing exceptions
10:23 Handling errors with Result pattern
14:11 Performance testing Result pattern
15:30 Result pattern drawbacks