Is there any appreciable difference between if and if-else?

Question

Given the following code snippets, is there any appreciable difference?

public boolean foo(int input) {
   if(input > 10) {
       doStuff();
       retur         


        

Answer 1

Think of this case when the two examples won't be similar:

    public boolean foo(int input) {
        if (input > 10) {
            // doStuff();
            return true;
        }
        System.out.println("do some other intermediary stuff");
        if (input == 0) {
            // doOtherStuff();
            return true;
        }

        return false;
    }

vs.

    public boolean foo(int input) {
        if (input > 10) {
            // doStuff();
            return true;
        } 
        //System.out.println("doing some intermediary stuff... doesn't work");
        else if (input == 0) {
            // doOtherStuff();
            return true;
        } else {
            return false;
        }
        return false;
    }

The first approach is probably more flexible, but both formulas have their use in different circumstances.

Regarding performance, I think the differences are to small to be taken in consideration, for any regular java application, coded by sane programmers :).