Exceptions and Performance in .NET - The True Cost of Exceptions

Almost every time exceptions are mentioned in mailing lists and newsgroups, people say they're really expensive, and should be avoided in almost all situations. As an idea of just how expensive some people think they can be, in one article someone asked whether the fact that his web application was throwing about 200 exceptions an hour was likely to be harming his performance. Various people replied saying that it would indeed be causing a problem. This article examins the claim