title: Will a shorthand IF provide an efficiency boost compared to the default IF?
body: <p>If i have a large data file containing integers of an arbitrary length needing to be sorted by it's second field:</p>
  
  <pre><code>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
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>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?</p>
  
  <pre><code>num2 = atoi(Str);
  num1 = atoi(Str2);
  LoggNum = (num2 &gt; num1) ? num2 : num1; //faster?
  </code></pre>
  
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  <pre><code>num2 = atoi(Str);
  num1 = atoi(Str2);
  if(num2 &gt; num1)    //or the same?
      LoggNum = num2;
  else
      LoggNum = num1;
  </code></pre>