fs: makes existsSync stop using errors #24068
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The previous implementation of
existsSync
was a try/catch on topof
accessSync
. While conceptually sound it was a performance problemwhen running it repeatedly on non-existing files, because
accessSync
had to create an
Error
object that was immediatly discarded (becauseexistsSync
never reports anything else thantrue
/false
).This implementation simply checks whether the context would have caused
an exception to be thrown, but doesn't actually create it.
I benchmarked it as such:
Fixes: #24008
Checklist
make -j4 test
(UNIX), orvcbuild test
(Windows) passes