问:Java中的异常处理真的很慢吗?
传统观点以及大量谷歌结果表明，不应该将异常逻辑用于Java中的正常程序流。通常会给出两个原因，
它真的很慢——甚至比普通代码慢一个数量级(给出的原因各不相同)，
and
它很混乱，因为人们只希望在异常代码中处理错误。
这个问题是关于第一条的。
As an example, this page describes Java exception handling as "very slow" and relates the slowness to the creation of the exception message string - "this string is then used in creating the exception object that is thrown. This is not fast." The article Effective Exception Handling in Java says that "the reason for this is due to the object creation aspect of exception handling, which thereby makes throwing exceptions inherently slow". Another reason out there is that the stack trace generation is what slows it down.
My testing (using Java 1.6.0_07, Java HotSpot 10.0, on 32 bit Linux), indicates that exception handling is no slower than regular code. I tried running a method in a loop that executes some code. At the end of the method, I use a boolean to indicate whether to return or throw. This way the actual processing is the same. I tried running the methods in different orders and averaging my test times, thinking it may have been the JVM warming up. In all my tests, the throw was at least as fast as the return, if not faster (up to 3.1% faster). I am completely open to the possibility that my tests were wrong, but I haven't seen anything out there in the way of the code sample, test comparisons, or results in the last year or two that show exception handling in Java to actually be slow.
引导我走上这条路的是我需要使用的一个API，它将抛出异常作为正常控制逻辑的一部分。我想纠正它们的用法，但现在我可能做不到。我是否应该赞美他们的前瞻思维?
在论文《即时编译中的高效Java异常处理》中，作者建议，即使没有抛出异常，仅异常处理程序的存在就足以阻止JIT编译器正确优化代码，从而降低代码的速度。我还没有测试过这个理论。
我已经扩展了@Mecki和@incarnate给出的答案，没有为Java填充stacktrace。
在Java 7+中，我们可以使用Throwable(String message, Throwable cause, boolean enableSuppression,boolean writableStackTrace)。但是对于Java6，请参阅我对这个问题的回答
// This one will regularly throw one
public void method4(int i) throws NoStackTraceThrowable {
value = ((value + i) / i) << 1;
// i & 1 is equally fast to calculate as i & 0xFFFFFFF; it is both
// an AND operation between two integers. The size of the number plays
// no role. AND on 32 BIT always ANDs all 32 bits
if ((i & 0x1) == 1) {
throw new NoStackTraceThrowable();
}
}
// This one will regularly throw one
public void method5(int i) throws NoStackTraceRuntimeException {
value = ((value + i) / i) << 1;
// i & 1 is equally fast to calculate as i & 0xFFFFFFF; it is both
// an AND operation between two integers. The size of the number plays
// no role. AND on 32 BIT always ANDs all 32 bits
if ((i & 0x1) == 1) {
throw new NoStackTraceRuntimeException();
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
int i;
long l;
Test t = new Test();
l = System.currentTimeMillis();
t.reset();
for (i = 1; i < 100000000; i++) {
try {
t.method4(i);
} catch (NoStackTraceThrowable e) {
// Do nothing here, as we will get here
}
}
l = System.currentTimeMillis() - l;
System.out.println( "method4 took " + l + " ms, result was " + t.getValue() );
l = System.currentTimeMillis();
t.reset();
for (i = 1; i < 100000000; i++) {
try {
t.method5(i);
} catch (RuntimeException e) {
// Do nothing here, as we will get here
}
}
l = System.currentTimeMillis() - l;
System.out.println( "method5 took " + l + " ms, result was " + t.getValue() );
}
输出与Java 1.6.0_45，在Core i7, 8GB RAM:
method1 took 883 ms, result was 2
method2 took 882 ms, result was 2
method3 took 32270 ms, result was 2 // throws Exception
method4 took 8114 ms, result was 2 // throws NoStackTraceThrowable
method5 took 8086 ms, result was 2 // throws NoStackTraceRuntimeException
因此，返回值的方法仍然比引发异常的方法更快。恕我直言，我们不能仅仅为成功流和错误流使用返回类型来设计一个清晰的API。在没有stacktrace的情况下抛出异常的方法比普通异常快4-5倍。
谢谢@Greg
public class NoStackTraceThrowable extends Throwable {
public NoStackTraceThrowable() {
super("my special throwable", null, false, false);
}
}
