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- Exception handling is designed for exceptional circumstances.
- However, it is optimized for the normal situation. This means,
- little or no overhead is incurred if an exception does not occur.
- Therefore, the execution of a throw point or the associated
- exception handler is not guaranteed to be efficient. But, when
- exception handlers are not invoked, overhead is minimal.
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