C IF statement efficiency...

[U23405 at UICVM]

I was wondering if, of the two following program fragments, which one would
be compiled more efficiently by most C compilers:

          if (big > small)             if (big > small)
               return big;                  return big;
          else                         return small;
               return small;

In other words, does a compiler handle IF statements with RETURNs more or less
efficiently than IF..ELSE statements with RETURNs (or with other statements
besides RETURN, for that matter) ?

                                                 Michael Steiner
                                                 Email: U23405 at UICVM