The Performance Cost of Abusing Go's panic/recover

This article benchmarks the performance difference between using Go's `panic` and `recover` for array iteration versus a traditional loop. The results demonstrate a significant performance penalty for abusing `panic`/`recover` for control flow in smaller datasets. This is attributed to the inhibition of compiler optimizations such as inlining and bounds check elimination. While `panic`/`recover` can offer efficiency gains in handling internal errors, the author cautions against overuse and stresses the importance of keeping such mechanisms internal to a package, away from public APIs.