[jdom-interest] cost of throwing an exception

[Joseph Bowbeer]

Dennis Sosnoski has performance timings on his site. Looks like
constructing a new exception, including filling-in the stack
trace, is expensive.

  http://www.sosnoski.com/Java/Timings.html#Exceptions

Here are some relative comparisons, from the same source:

  http://www.sosnoski.com/Java/Session/Specifics2.html
  http://www.sosnoski.com/Java/Session/Specifics3.html

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Joe Bowbeer