Is it faster (or better) to declare an array inline in Java?

Question

Consider the following two method calls that are nearly equivalent. Take note of the way the byte array is declared and allocated on both.

void Method1()
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Answer 1

Both are the same but I would not recommend the second one as it is difficult to read to write and debug. Imagine you find this:

byte [] bytearray = {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0};

Could you tell if the size of the array is correct? Yes, but imagine with is:

byte [] bytearray = new byte[25];

It is far more easy.

And imagine the case the array length is 100!