Its an intuitive idea and makes sense but no, I ran your code vs the code above in a speed checker, with the worst case senario, where every test was more than 5 likes but less than 200, the speed for both over 10 billion iterations is about 1.2 - 1.3 billion operations per second, so both run about the same speed, it seems to be so marginal that its up to your prefrence which to use.