checking that an object exists 2005-04-07 - By Brad Friedman
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Bernard Lebel wrote:
>Btw, besides the Linux limitation with the try/catch statement in
>JScript, what's so wrong with exception catching? You are testing the
>existence of an object, not running commands or calling methods.
>
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Its just a general programmer's rule (strong guideline). Exception
throwing and catching is slower than normal function calling in almost
all cases (I've never heard of one where its not). So, depending on
exceptions for flow control, rather than normal function calls, can slow
things down and is frowned upon.
Now granted, in most cases within XSI... who cares? Its still fast
enough :) But some of the things Clay was doing sound pretty heavy so
it may be worth trying to cut down the runtime. And also, once you get
into the habbit of frowning upon exceptions... its hard to stop :) err... :(
-brad
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