Yes, it is faster. But in 99% of cases it doesn't matter because it takes so little time there's no reason to optimize it.
And Beaker's writing it out the long was is silly. :-) Twice as much code and it probably is slower to execute to boot. Not that that matters though, as I pointed out, but in this case you're just doing extra code for nothing. :-)
And Beaker's writing it out the long was is silly. :-) Twice as much code and it probably is slower to execute to boot. Not that that matters though, as I pointed out, but in this case you're just doing extra code for nothing. :-)