On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, it was written: > "leo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I come from a java background, where Exceptions are a big Avoid Me, but >> are the performance implications the same in Python? > > Well, you could measure it experimentally pretty easily, but anyway, > Python exceptions are much less expensive than Java exceptions.
Really? How come? What is it that stops java using the same technique as python? There's been quite a lot of work put into making java fast, so it'd be interesting if we had something they didn't. tom -- What we learn about is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our methods of questioning. -- Werner Heisenberg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
