Cost of creating exception compared to cost of logging it

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Published on 2010-04-06T16:29:21Z Indexed on 2010/04/06 16:33 UTC
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Hello,

Just wonder how much cost to raise a java exception (or to call native fillInStackTrace() of Throwable) compared to what it cost to log it with log4j (in a file, with production hard drive)...

Asking myself, when exceptions are raised, does it worth to often log them even if they are not necessary significant... (i work in a high load environment)

Thanks

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