Boost your code performance by ditching exceptions. The benchmarks show it - throwing exceptions can tank your performance. But it's also something that I've had to work through many times in my professional career. After having written many parsers for unstructured data (digital forensics is a ton of fun!), you learn that poorly formatted data isn't exceptional... it's just not what you want. You also learn how slow it is to throw exceptions when you're churning through terabytes of data. Watch