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     Post subject:Nesting vs Chaining
    PostPosted:Thu Dec 30, 2010 2:55 pm 
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    I'm currently in the process of developing a game for Android, and while writing a method to check if a touch event occurred inside the bounds of a shape, something occurred to me. Given that my current code looks like this:
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    public boolean isTouchingShape(final float touchX, final float touchY, final Shape shape) { final float x = shape.getX(); final float y = shape.getY(); final float w = shape.getWidthScaled(); final float h = shape.getHeightScaled(); if (touchX > x && touchX < x + w) { if (touchY > y && touchY < y + h) { return true; } } return false; }
    Is it more efficient to nest conditionals like I have done above or is it better to chain conditions into one expression? For example:
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    public boolean isTouchingShape(final float touchX, final float touchY, final Shape shape) { final float x = shape.getX(); final float y = shape.getY(); final float w = shape.getWidthScaled(); final float h = shape.getHeightScaled(); if ((touchX > x && touchX < x + w) && (touchY > y && touchY < y +h)) { return true; } return false; }

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     Post subject:Re: Nesting vs Chaining
    PostPosted:Sat Jan 01, 2011 11:54 am 
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    No, nor is it less efficient. The generated bytecode will be identical for both cases - four tests followed by conditional jumps.

    EDIT: if you want to make it more efficient, make the function final. This will avoid the overhead of a virtual method dispatch whenever it's called.

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    PostPosted:Sat Jan 01, 2011 12:51 pm 
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    No, nor is it less efficient. The generated bytecode will be identical for both cases - four tests followed by conditional jumps.

    EDIT: if you want to make it more efficient, make the function final. This will avoid the overhead of a virtual method dispatch whenever it's called.
    Nice, thanks for the tip on the final keyword.

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    PostPosted:Sun Jan 02, 2011 7:56 pm 
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    I've been dying to test some new stuff for my android. Will the game be posted? :D

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    PostPosted:Sun Jan 02, 2011 8:09 pm 
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    I've been dying to test some new stuff for my android. Will the game be posted? :D
    We're planning to release it on the Market sometime in February.

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    Nice, be sure to leave a notice! :classy:

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