Why exceptions for error handling is so important

[Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 12 January 2015 at 22:17:57 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> To defend that argument we'd first have to fix our own codegen.
>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12442
>
> That issue has nothing to do with exception handling vs error 
> codes.

If you start to discuss register allocation than the actual cost 
of "zero-cost" EH has quite a lot to do with it.