Run results for: Try/catch performance for control flow #4

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 124

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
Try/catch	12187.4 Ops/sec
Without try/catch	30820.3 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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Tests:

Try/catch
function checkNotFifty(num) { if (num !== 99999) { return true; } throw new Error('Number is odd'); } for (let i = 0; i < 100000;++i) { let res; try { checkNotFifty(i); res = true; } catch (err) { res = false; } }
Without try/catch
function checkNotFifty(num) { if (num !== 50) { return true; } return false; } for (let i = 0; i < 100000;++i) { let res; if (checkNotFifty(i)) { res = true; } else { res = false; } }