Which Is Faster: String method or finding tree node

[Isaac Hewitt]

Wanting to know which is faster in JTree. The directory in question is second from the root. You would have this Root/A/Synopsis
The path is this: String path = DocumentTree.this.getLastSelectedPathComponent().toString();

    private boolean synopsisDir(String path) {
        if(path.endsWith("Synopsis")) {
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

or would it be faster to find out which child it is.

[Jesper de Jong]

It's a bit hard to understand what exactly you're asking.

Does your code have a performance problem? If not, then is it really worth it to spend a lot of time on optimizing this?

Note that writing code in the form:

if (expr) {
	return true;
}

return false;

is overly verbose, you could just write:

return expr;

You could rewrite your method like this:

private boolean synopsisDir(String path) {
	return path.endsWith("Synopsis");
}

I would also rename the method to isSynopsisDir instead of just synopsisDir to improve readability.