From: Luke Melia <lkmlists@...>
Date: 2007-11-23T00:26:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Emulating a Groovy feature?

On Nov 21, 2007, at 2:47 PM, thefed wrote:

> Begin-Rescue-End blocks tend to slow things down significantly -  
> does JUST including rescue also take those penalties to speed?

Sebastian Delmont did some benchmarking on this last year.

http://www.notsostupid.com/blog/2006/08/31/the-price-of-a-rescue/

His conclusions: "Using rescue is not much more expensive than running  
naked. In my tests in particular, it never was more than 5% slower. It  
might even be cheaper than multiple tests."

Cheers from NYC,
Luke