Are programs written to make heavy use of exceptions going to be markedly
slower than programs written more traditionally with loops/ifs, etc?

(My uninformed mental picture of exception is that they would use some type of
underlying setjump/longjump overhead.)

Thanks in advance to anyone who replies.

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