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### Performance

- **A `throw` inside a counted loop no longer forces the loop off its fast
path.** `for (let i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) { if (bad) throw new Error(…);
sum += arr[i]; }` is the ordinary shape of a validating loop, and the throw
— even one that never fires — used to cost the whole packed-array
specialization. Measured on a quiet machine over a 512-element `number[]`:

| loop body | before | after | node |
|---|---|---|---|
| `throw new Error("bad")` | 7.99 ns/op | **0.95** | 7.70 |
| `throw new Error("bad " + i)` | 7.99 | **0.95** | 7.75 |
| `throw new Error()` | 7.99 | **0.95** | 7.75 |
| `throw "bad " + i` | 7.99 | **0.95** | 7.74 |
| `throw <pre-built value>` | 7.99 | **0.95** | 1.11 |

An 8.1× improvement on the constructing forms, which are the common ones.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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rg -n -F -e '8.1' -e '7.99' -e '0.95' -e '9235-packed-loop-throw-fast-path' -e 'packed-loop-throw' . \
  --glob '!target/**' --glob '!node_modules/**' || true
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Reconcile the reported improvement with the table.

The displayed values 7.99 ns/op and 0.95 ns/op calculate to approximately 8.4×, not 8.1×. Update the sentence or include the unrounded measurements and calculation for 8.1×.

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In `@changelog.d/9235-packed-loop-throw-fast-path.md` at line 17, Update the
improvement statement in the changelog to match the displayed 7.99 ns/op and
0.95 ns/op values, or provide unrounded measurements that substantiate the
stated 8.1× result.

Perry now runs every shape in that benchmark faster than node, including
the loop with no `throw` in it at all (0.95 against 1.11).
Comment on lines +15 to +19

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add the no-throw benchmark row or correct the claim.

Line 19 reports a no-throw result of 0.95 versus 1.11, but the table has no no-throw row. Those values currently belong to throw <pre-built value> on Line 15, so readers cannot verify the stated comparison. Add the missing row or revise the sentence.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@changelog.d/9235-packed-loop-throw-fast-path.md` around lines 15 - 19,
Correct the benchmark changelog so the no-throw comparison is verifiable: add a
distinct no-throw row with the 0.95 and 1.11 results if those measurements are
available, or revise the concluding sentence to avoid attributing those values
to an unlisted benchmark shape. Keep the existing pre-built-value row accurate.


The specialization keeps a loop's accumulators in registers, so admitting a
`throw` required writing them back on the unwind edge — an exception leaves
through a landing pad rather than the loop's exit block, and a `catch` can
read anything the loop wrote. Operands are admitted only when evaluating
them cannot itself unwind: throwing a value coerces nothing, but building an
`Error` message or concatenating a string can dispatch to a user `toString`
or `valueOf`, and those can throw before the writeback runs.

These landed in **v0.5.1519** (#9235, with #9230 and #9215). This fragment
was written after that release was cut, so it appears here rather than in
the notes for the release that carries the change.
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