else or return?

Question

Which one out of following two is best wrt to performance and standard practice. How does .NET internally handles these two code snippets?

Code1

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Answer 1

I think it does not matter. You should go for readability and I think the less brackets the better. So I would return without the last 2 brackets (see sample below). Please do not think about performance when writing something like this it won't give you anything but too much complexity at an too early stage.

if(result)
{
  process 1
  return;
}

process 2