Overhead associated with Exception vs Throwable in Java

Question

I know

throw new Exception();

has a pretty large overhead, since it creates a full stackTrace, etc.
Does

throw new Thr         


        

Answer 1

With JIT compilation, it is actually not still the case that there is a lot of overheard to throwing an Exception in Java. But throwing a Throwable is not much different, since you will get a stack trace there as well.

If you are interested, there is a very interesting paper called "Efficient Java exception handling in just-in-time compilation" (link). Not a light read, but quite informative.