前段时间，我写了一个类来测试将字符串转换为整数的相对性能，使用两种方法:(1)调用Integer.parseInt()并捕获异常，或者(2)用正则表达式匹配字符串并仅在匹配成功时调用parseInt()。我以最有效的方式使用正则表达式(即，在终止循环之前创建Pattern和Matcher对象)，并且我没有打印或保存异常的堆栈跟踪。

对于一个包含10,000个字符串的列表，如果它们都是有效数字，那么parseInt()方法的速度是regex方法的四倍。但如果只有80%的字符串是有效的，则regex的速度是parseInt()的两倍。如果20%是有效的，这意味着异常在80%的时间内被抛出和捕获，则regex的速度大约是parseInt()的20倍。

我对结果感到惊讶，因为regex方法处理了两次有效字符串:一次用于匹配，另一次用于parseInt()。但是抛出和捕获异常完全弥补了这一点。这种情况在现实世界中不太可能经常发生，但如果发生了，您绝对不应该使用异常捕获技术。但如果您只是验证用户输入或类似的东西，务必使用parseInt()方法。

我用JVM 1.5做了一些性能测试，使用异常至少慢了两倍。平均:一个非常小的方法的执行时间超过3倍(3倍)。一个必须捕获异常的小循环的自时间增加了2倍。

我在产品代码和微基准测试中也看到过类似的数字。

异常绝对不应该用于任何频繁调用的东西。每秒抛出数千个异常将导致巨大的瓶颈。

例如，使用“Integer.ParseInt(…)”在一个非常大的文本文件中找到所有错误的值——非常糟糕的想法。(我曾在产品代码上看到过这种实用方法的性能下降)

使用异常在用户GUI表单上报告错误的值，从性能的角度来看可能并不是那么糟糕。

无论这是否是一个好的设计实践，我都会遵循这样的规则:如果错误是正常的/预期的，那么就使用返回值。如果不正常，请使用异常。例如:读取用户输入，错误值是正常的—使用错误代码。将值传递给内部实用程序函数时，应该通过调用代码来过滤坏值——使用异常。

即使抛出异常并不慢，对于正常的程序流抛出异常仍然是一个坏主意。使用这种方式，它是类似于GOTO…

我想这并没有真正回答问题。我想抛出异常的“传统”智慧在早期的java版本(< 1.4)中是正确的。创建异常需要虚拟机创建整个堆栈跟踪。从那时起，在VM中发生了很多变化，以加快速度，这可能是已经改进的一个领域。

供你参考，我扩展了Mecki做的实验:

method1 took 1733 ms, result was 2
method2 took 1248 ms, result was 2
method3 took 83997 ms, result was 2
method4 took 1692 ms, result was 2
method5 took 60946 ms, result was 2
method6 took 25746 ms, result was 2

前3个和Mecki的一样(我的笔记本电脑明显慢一些)。

method4和method3是一样的，除了它创建了一个新的Integer(1)而不是抛出一个新的Exception()。

method5类似于method3，除了它创建了新的Exception()而不抛出它。

Method6和method3很像，只是它会抛出一个预先创建的异常(一个实例变量)，而不是创建一个新异常。

在Java中，抛出异常的大部分开销是收集堆栈跟踪所花费的时间，这发生在创建异常对象时。抛出异常的实际成本虽然很大，但比创建异常的成本要小得多。

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);
    }
}

使用附带的代码，在JDK 15上，@Mecki测试用例得到了完全不同的结果。这基本上是在5个循环中运行代码，第一个循环稍微短一些，给VM一些时间来热身。

结果:

Loop 1 10000 cycles
method1 took 1 ms, result was 2
method2 took 0 ms, result was 2
method3 took 22 ms, result was 2
method4 took 22 ms, result was 2
method5 took 24 ms, result was 2
Loop 2 10000000 cycles
method1 took 39 ms, result was 2
method2 took 39 ms, result was 2
method3 took 1558 ms, result was 2
method4 took 1640 ms, result was 2
method5 took 1717 ms, result was 2
Loop 3 10000000 cycles
method1 took 49 ms, result was 2
method2 took 48 ms, result was 2
method3 took 126 ms, result was 2
method4 took 88 ms, result was 2
method5 took 87 ms, result was 2
Loop 4 10000000 cycles
method1 took 34 ms, result was 2
method2 took 34 ms, result was 2
method3 took 33 ms, result was 2
method4 took 98 ms, result was 2
method5 took 58 ms, result was 2
Loop 5 10000000 cycles
method1 took 34 ms, result was 2
method2 took 33 ms, result was 2
method3 took 33 ms, result was 2
method4 took 48 ms, result was 2
method5 took 49 ms, result was 2

package hs.jfx.eventstream.api;

public class Snippet {
  int value;


  public int getValue() {
      return value;
  }

  public void reset() {
      value = 0;
  }

  // Calculates without exception
  public void method1(int i) {
      value = ((value + i) / i) << 1;
      // Will never be true
      if ((i & 0xFFFFFFF) == 1000000000) {
          System.out.println("You'll never see this!");
      }
  }

  // Could in theory throw one, but never will
  public void method2(int i) throws Exception {
      value = ((value + i) / i) << 1;
      // Will never be true
      if ((i & 0xFFFFFFF) == 1000000000) {
          throw new Exception();
      }
  }

  private static final NoStackTraceRuntimeException E = new NoStackTraceRuntimeException();

  // This one will regularly throw one
  public void method3(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 E;
      }
  }

  // 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) {
    for(int k = 0; k < 5; k++) {
      int cycles = 10000000;
      if(k == 0) {
        cycles = 10000;
        try {
          Thread.sleep(500);
        }
        catch(InterruptedException e) {
          // TODO Auto-generated catch block
          e.printStackTrace();
        }
      }
      System.out.println("Loop " + (k + 1) + " " + cycles + " cycles");
      int i;
      long l;
      Snippet t = new Snippet();

      l = System.currentTimeMillis();
      t.reset();
      for (i = 1; i < cycles; i++) {
          t.method1(i);
      }
      l = System.currentTimeMillis() - l;
      System.out.println(
          "method1 took " + l + " ms, result was " + t.getValue()
      );

      l = System.currentTimeMillis();
      t.reset();
      for (i = 1; i < cycles; i++) {
          try {
              t.method2(i);
          } catch (Exception e) {
              System.out.println("You'll never see this!");
          }
      }
      l = System.currentTimeMillis() - l;
      System.out.println(
          "method2 took " + l + " ms, result was " + t.getValue()
      );

      l = System.currentTimeMillis();
      t.reset();
      for (i = 1; i < cycles; i++) {
          try {
              t.method3(i);
          } catch (NoStackTraceRuntimeException e) {
            // always comes here
          }
      }
      l = System.currentTimeMillis() - l;
      System.out.println(
          "method3 took " + l + " ms, result was " + t.getValue()
      );


      l = System.currentTimeMillis();
      t.reset();
      for (i = 1; i < cycles; i++) {
          try {
              t.method4(i);
          } catch (NoStackTraceThrowable e) {
            // always comes 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 < cycles; i++) {
          try {
              t.method5(i);
          } catch (RuntimeException e) {
            // always comes here
          }
      }
      l = System.currentTimeMillis() - l;
      System.out.println( "method5 took " + l + " ms, result was " + t.getValue() );
    }
  }

  public static class NoStackTraceRuntimeException extends RuntimeException {
    public NoStackTraceRuntimeException() {
        super("my special throwable", null, false, false);
    }
  }

  public static class NoStackTraceThrowable extends Throwable {
    public NoStackTraceThrowable() {
        super("my special throwable", null, false, false);
    }
  }
}