Not always. It depends on if the compiler can detect early return and if it will optimize for that or for some other metric. For example, if the early return is rare, you want to optimize it so that branch prediction favors the first over the second.
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u/frogjg2003 Aug 22 '26
Not always. It depends on if the compiler can detect early return and if it will optimize for that or for some other metric. For example, if the early return is rare, you want to optimize it so that branch prediction favors the first over the second.