Question

If i have a large data file containing integers of an arbitrary length needing to be sorted by it’s second field:

1 3 4 5
1 4 5 7
-1 34 56 7
124 58394 1384 -1938
1948 3848089 -14850 0
1048 01840 1039 888
//consider this is a LARGE file, the data goes on for quite some time

and i call upon qsort to be my weapon of choice, inside my sort function, will using the shorthand IF provide a significant performance boost to overall time it takes the data to be sorted? Or is the shorthand IF only used as a convenience tool for organizing code?

num2 = atoi(Str);
num1 = atoi(Str2);
LoggNum = (num2 > num1) ? num2 : num1; //faster?

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num2 = atoi(Str);
num1 = atoi(Str2);
if(num2 > num1)    //or the same?
    LoggNum = num2;
else
    LoggNum = num1;

Answer 1

Any modern compiler will build identical code in these two cases, the difference is one of style and convenience only.