Best approach to converting Boolean object to string in java

Question

I am trying to convert boolean to string type...

Boolean b = true;
String str = String.valueOf(b);

or

Boolean b = true;
Str         


        

Answer 1

Depends on what you mean by "efficient". Performance-wise both versions are the same as its the same bytecode.

$ ./javap.exe -c java.lang.String | grep -A 10 "valueOf(boolean)"
  public static java.lang.String valueOf(boolean);
    Code:
       0: iload_0
       1: ifeq          9
       4: ldc           #14                 // String true
       6: goto          11
       9: ldc           #10                 // String false
      11: areturn


$ ./javap.exe -c java.lang.Boolean | grep -A 10 "toString(boolean)"
  public static java.lang.String toString(boolean);
    Code:
       0: iload_0
       1: ifeq          9
       4: ldc           #3                  // String true
       6: goto          11
       9: ldc           #2                  // String false
      11: areturn