Comment by pythonb3sss

Wow! Prior to reading this, I was not aware of "Zero Cost" exception handling. While I am only a Python developer, I always assumed that in any programming language, exception handling, regardless of whether an exception is raised or not, cost some CPU cycles. I work at an HFT firm and they test their changes in equations in Python programs on crypto rather than C++. So I resorted to using try-except blocks in Python to reduce "branching" i.e if-elif-else blocks. I would just add all the different conditional functions in a dictionary and manage calls based on keys and handle exceptions. I don't know if that's the best way to improve speed, but I would like to check if this has any impact on it.