diff --git a/src/ng/compile.js b/src/ng/compile.js
index 68e49f2bcaf1..9355630dca69 100644
--- a/src/ng/compile.js
+++ b/src/ng/compile.js
@@ -2052,19 +2052,7 @@ function $CompileProvider($provide, $$sanitizeUriProvider) {
           addTextInterpolateDirective(directives, node.nodeValue);
           break;
         case NODE_TYPE_COMMENT: /* Comment */
-          try {
-            match = COMMENT_DIRECTIVE_REGEXP.exec(node.nodeValue);
-            if (match) {
-              nName = directiveNormalize(match[1]);
-              if (addDirective(directives, nName, 'M', maxPriority, ignoreDirective)) {
-                attrs[nName] = trim(match[2]);
-              }
-            }
-          } catch (e) {
-            // turns out that under some circumstances IE9 throws errors when one attempts to read
-            // comment's node value.
-            // Just ignore it and continue. (Can't seem to reproduce in test case.)
-          }
+          collectCommentDirectives(node, directives, attrs, maxPriority, ignoreDirective);
           break;
       }
 
@@ -2072,6 +2060,24 @@ function $CompileProvider($provide, $$sanitizeUriProvider) {
       return directives;
     }
 
+    function collectCommentDirectives(node, directives, attrs, maxPriority, ignoreDirective) {
+      // function created because of performance, try/catch disables
+      // the optimization of the whole function #14848
+      try {
+        var match = COMMENT_DIRECTIVE_REGEXP.exec(node.nodeValue);
+        if (match) {
+          var nName = directiveNormalize(match[1]);
+          if (addDirective(directives, nName, 'M', maxPriority, ignoreDirective)) {
+            attrs[nName] = trim(match[2]);
+          }
+        }
+      } catch (e) {
+        // turns out that under some circumstances IE9 throws errors when one attempts to read
+        // comment's node value.
+        // Just ignore it and continue. (Can't seem to reproduce in test case.)
+      }
+    }
+
     /**
      * Given a node with an directive-start it collects all of the siblings until it finds
      * directive-end.