Exception Performance

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Description

Trying to evaluate how slow exceptions are in JS land

Setup

const myErrorFunc = (state) => {
	if (state) return true;
	throw new Error("bad state");
}

const myBoolFunc = (state) => {
	if (state) return true;
	return false;
}

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Bools
let state = false;

for(let i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
	state = !state;
	const retVal = myBoolFunc(state);	
}
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Errors
let state = false;

for(let i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
	state = !state;
	try {
	    const retVal = myErrorFunc(state);	
	} catch(e) {
		const retVal = false;
	}
}
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