C IF statement efficiency...

[Michael T Sullivan]

In article <8808171400.AA05122 at ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, U23405 at UICVM writes:
> 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;

Let's throw

	return (big > small ? big : small);

into the consideration pile as well.

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