Throwing vs Branching (v3)

Revision 3 of this benchmark created on

Description

A demonstration of how good try-catch performs vs traditional branching, also known as object creation skewing performance test results.

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Throwing
const x = false;
try {
	if (!x) throw x;
	console.log('x is true');
} catch {
	console.log('x is false')
}
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Not Throwing
const x = false;
if (!x) {
	console.log('x is false');
} else {
	console.log('x is true');
}
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try-catch without throwing
const x = true;
try {
	if (!x) throw x;
	console.log('x is true');
} catch {
	console.log('x is false')
}
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x is true
const x = true;
if (!x) {
	console.log('x is false');
} else {
	console.log('x is true');
}
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