/*Fumio Nonaka in: Coding|Jump To Comments February 9, 2011
The conditional operator ?: is used to select an alternative value to be assigned. It is basically faster than the if statement.*/
 
 
myVariable = (condition) ? valueA : valueB;  
 
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if (condition) {  
    myVariable = valueA;  
} else {  
    myVariable = valueB;  
}  
/*However if the value selected by the conditional operator is to be added with the addition assignment operator +=, its operation will come to be slow.*/
 
 
myVariable += (condition) ? valueA : valueB;  
//Using the assignment operator instead makes it a little faster.
 
 
myVariable = (condition) ? myVariable + valueA : myVariable + valueB;  
//But in this case, the if statement is better to use.
 
 
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if (condition) {  
    myVariable += valueA;  
} else {  
    myVariable += valueB;  
}