What is faster: many ifs, or else if?

Question

I\'m iterating through an array and sorting it by values into days of the week.

In order to do it I\'m using many if statements. Does it make any differ

Answer 1

else if would be faster in the sense that you compare until you hit a condition that resolves to true, and you skip the rest of the ifs.

Also consider reordering the compares in order of descending frequency.

And using the switch statement depending on the datatype of the object you are comparing.

However at this point, as duffymo has suggested, you would be micro optimizing. The performance gain will never be as significant if you haven't chosen the right sorting algorithm for the job first.