Java: if-return-if-return vs if-return-elseif-return

The generated byte code is identical for those two cases, so it’s purely a matter of style.

I produced two methods e1 and e2 and both produced this byte code (read using javap -v):

public boolean e1(java.lang.Object);
  Code:
   Stack=2, Locals=2, Args_size=2
   0:   aload_0
   1:   aload_1
   2:   if_acmpne   7
   5:   iconst_1
   6:   ireturn
   7:   aload_1
   8:   ifnonnull   13
   11:  iconst_0
   12:  ireturn
   13:  aload_0
   14:  invokevirtual   #25; //Method java/lang/Object.getClass:()Ljava/lang/Class;
   17:  aload_1
   18:  invokevirtual   #25; //Method java/lang/Object.getClass:()Ljava/lang/Class;
   21:  if_acmpeq   26
   24:  iconst_0
   25:  ireturn

I left out the code I put after that to make it compile.