title: Is it bad practice to use break to exit a loop in Java?
body: <p>I was wondering if it is a "bad practice" to use a <code>break</code> statement to exit a loop instead of fulfilling the loop condition?</p>
  
  <p>I do not have enough insight in Java and the JVM to know how a loop is handled, so I was wondering if I was overlooking something critical by doing so.</p>
  
  <p>The focus of this question: is there a specific performance overhead?</p>