Hot take: Exceptions are a fine error-handling mechanism.
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This famously got GCJ into trouble, because Eclipse would take something like a minute to start up, as its startup path threw thousands of exceptions during normal execution. GCJ had to switch to some other method.
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this is one of my fav folklore facts, would love to know if you have a good reference for it that i can use
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I know. I chose it because in the circumstances, I could only use LLVM as a backend, it was a much better option than SjLj, and CPS-transforming everything would mean losing most debug information.
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