control structures (was "Re: Sins")

[skaller]

Emile van Sebille wrote:
> 
> FYI,
> 
> I get a significant improvement running Darrell's sample
> with string based exceptions (python -X...):
> 
> Time: 7.36000001431
> Time: 0.5
> 
> w/-X
> Time: 2.86000001431
> Time: 0.490000009537
> 
> but running Skip's there is no difference.
> 
> I-don't-know-what-it-means-ly y'rs

Strings are ready to throw. Classes must be instantiated,
which means searching for an __init__ method, etc -- 
extra overhead. And the 'matching' to find a handler
is more complex with class based exceptions, than a simple
string comparison.

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