title: Which one is faster?
body: <p>(edit: b is an existing boolean)</p>
  
  <p>Is</p>
  
  <pre><code>b = (a &gt; c);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>faster than</p>
  
  <pre><code>if (a &gt; c)
      b = true;
  </code></pre>
  
  <ul>
  <li>in general ?</li>
  <li>and considering the fact that in my case (a > c) is false most of the time ?</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>edit : I know gains will very small even though this part of code will be executed a large number of times. But I'm still intereste in theoretical answer.</p>
  
  <p>Thank you</p>