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Is it better to use a search in an array or in elseif statuses?

I was doing basic programming for the course that I am doing. One of the tasks was to compare the two ints and print something along the lines "5 less than 10".

Since this exercise was a review, I assume that the teacher was expecting if ... if.

I used the method of comparing a java integer with an array constant to output the result. I was wondering which approach is better (in terms of speed, memory, clarity, etc.)?

Code example

If the method:

int a = 5;
int b = 10;
String text;

if (a < b)
  text = "less than";
else if (a > b)
  text = "greater than";
else
  text = "equal to";

System.out.printf("%d is %s %d", a, text, b);

Array Method:

final String[] COMPS = {"less than", "equal to", "greater than"};

int a = 5;
int b = 10;
int cmp = Integer.compare(a, b) + 1;

System.out.printf("%d is %s %d", a, COMPS[cmp], b)
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For clarity, I will not select text into a variable at all.

if (a < b)
  System.out.printf("%d is less than %d%n", a, b);
else if (a > b)
  System.out.printf("%d is greater than %d%n", a, b);
else
  System.out.printf("%d is equal to %d%n", a, b);

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