Intro

Oracle Release notes

The compiler in the server VM now provides correct stack backtraces for all “cold” built-in exceptions. For performance purposes, when such an exception is thrown a few times, the method may be recompiled.

After recompilation, the compiler may choose a faster tactic using preallocated exceptions that do not provide a stack trace. To disable completely the use of preallocated exceptions, use this new flag: 

-XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow.

OmitStackTrace

-XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow.

Well, there is a JVM optimization (OmitStackTraceInFastThrow, which is on by default) which optimizes “built-in” exceptions that are thrown frequently enough to be cached and have to stack trace. So somebody at one point thought that was a worthwhile optimization and allocated engineering resources to it.

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