Rescuing in Ruby sucks

rescue_bm.rb

require 'benchmark'

Benchmark.benchmark do |x|
  x.report {
    100_000.times { nil.to_sym rescue :or }
  }
  
  x.report {
    100_000.times { nil.try(:to_sym) || :or 
  }
  
  x.report {
    100_000.times { nil ? nil.to_sym : :or }
  }
end

# 6.120000  0.050000  6.170000  (6.175324)
# 0.020000  0.000000  0.020000  (0.016220)
# 0.000000  0.000000  0.000000  (0.005985)