Because the || operator performs short-circuit evaluation, your boolean expression will generally be evaluated faster if the subexpression that is most likely to be true is on the left.

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This is because if the left subexpression is true, the right subexpression will not be evaluated, therefore saving execution time. However, if the left subexpression is false, the right subexpression will need to be evaluated to determine the value of the overall expression.

Because the || Operator Performs Short-Circuit Evaluation, Your Boolean Expression