Please don't post the same question in different forums. It wastes time for people who answer in one forum without knowing the same point has already been made in another forum.
I think the
performance implications of small vs. large try/catch block are really unimportant compared to other issues like correctness of code, and readability, so I'm closing this
thread and directing followups to the thread in
Java in General (intermediate) since that's better suited to the topic in general.