Exception Overhead

Objective

The purpose of this program is to reveal the overhead of exceptions compare to regular "return" statement, and I'm glad if it helps to reduce such a code to use an exception as an easy way to exit from the functions/loops.

Measurement Result

Below is the result of the program on my desktop machine (Mac mini 2014, Intel Core i5 2.6GHz, Oracle JRE 1.8.0_77) :

--- regular return ---
Result: 100000
27 msec elapsed
--- exit by exception ---
Result: 100000
1604 msec elapsed

Now you'll be scared to use an exception to exit the code in regular code path. :)