title: Performance cost of a try/catch block
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/867017/performance-cost-of-try">Performance Cost Of &lsquo;try&rsquo;</a>  </p>
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  <p>I am being told that adding a try catch block adds major performance cost in the order of 1000 times slower than without, in the example of a for loop of a million. Is this true?</p>
  
  <p>Isn't it best to use try catch block as much as possible?</p>