Which method of IF statements are better in terms of optimising and efficiency? [closed]

Hi Marmalados,

According to Roblox Studio, method 2 is faster. I ran multiple tests to prove that and here is the code that I used:

Time Testing Code

method1 = 0 -- Will count how many times method 1 came out to be successful in the trials.
method2 = 0 -- WIll count how many times method 2 came out to be successful in the trials.

for x = 1, 100000 do -- Runs 100 thousand trials on the code.
    t1 = tick()

    if workspace:FindFirstChild("Script") and workspace:FindFirstChild("Baseplate") then
    end

    t1 = tick() - t1

    t2 = tick()

    if workspace:FindFirstChild("Script") then
        if workspace:FindFirstChild("Baseplate") then
        end
    end

    t2 = tick() - t2

    if t1 < t2 then -- If method 1 turned out to be faster then add points to method 1.
        method1 = method1 + 1
    else
        method2 = method2 + 1
    end
end

if method1 > method2 then -- If method 1 had more points then it is best.
    print("Method 1 is best.")
else -- Otherwise method 2 is better.
    print("Method 2 is better.")
end

I hope I helped and had a great day/night.

Thanks,

Best regards,

KingLoneCat

The first statement is like, if yes and yes2 and yes3 then runs the script, while method 2 is like if yes then (checkpoint) if yes2 then (checkpoint) if yes3 then (checkpoint) as in consequently checking if they are all accompanied to each other, as in if the first yes is true, then check if the 2nd yes is true, vise versa.

I believe if you want a more-effecient based script, i'd prefer method 2 as in consequently running check-ups while proceeding throughout the script. Like I said, the method 1 is just to check at first if all method's are true to proceed, while method 2 is checking if the first if statement is true, to proceed to second if statement and so on.