Is there any benefit to returning the result of assigning a value to a local variable rather than the value directly?

Question

I am doing a java code inspection. Here is a function (snippet):

String getValue() {
     String res;
     StringBuilder strBuilder = new StringBuilder();

         


        

Answer 1

You cant do either

String res = strBuilder.toString();
return res ;

Or directly,

return strBuilder.toString();

Now If you want to know about benefits as you asked Is there any benefit, i always prefer directly return. My personal logic is simple as

• You gonna write one line less code !!! (declaring variables allover is not a good feeling to me and also you don't have to think about the name of the variable, conflicts etc.. those silly matter )
• The value will not be stored in memory and wait for the GC to collect it. SO, less memory see.....
• Fast write to a variable and then read from it and return ..... more read/write isn't it?

Those things are nothing big, I had to say as you asked