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[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 2:43 PM -0500 5/29/03, Bradley S. Huffman wrote:

>Is one faster than the other? Is it always? Being someone who prefers not
>to try and second guess the compiler, I had to agree he was right and not
>argue to keep getType.

In my experience the int comparison is *much* faster than the 
instanceof test, at least with Sun's latest 1.4.2 VM on Linux. 
However, I'm not convinced that will always be true. I do find the 
instanceof test to be much more natural and descriptive though, so I 
prefer it.
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   Elliotte Rusty Harold
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