in reply to Re^2: How expensive is eval { }?
in thread How expensive is eval { }?

I rerun the test several times and with different perl version (5.8.8 and 5.10.0), and got results from 0% to -4%.

You can see that our both results have higher noise than the difference, so I wouldn't base a design decision on it. If exceptions are cleaner from a programming POV I'd go with exceptions.

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