is printing even odd number using wait notify gives better performance?

Question

Printing even odd can be achieved without wait and notify, want understand is wait notify gives better performance over below code ?

  public class EvenOdd {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Thread t1= new ThreadToPrint("Even");
    Thread t2= new ThreadToPrint("Odd");
    t1.start();
    t2.start(); 
}
}

class ThreadToPrint extends Thread{
     static Integer count = 0;
     static int MAX = 100;
     static boolean printEven = true;

     public ThreadToPrint(String string) {
        super(string);
     } 

     @Override
    public void run() {
        while (count < MAX) {
                if ("Even".equals(Thread.currentThread().getName()) && printEven) {
                    System.out.println("*************"+Thread.currentThread().getName() + " Printing :" + count++);
                    printEven=false;
                } else if ("Odd".equals(Thread.currentThread().getName()) && !printEven) {
                    System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getName() + " Printing :" + count++);
                    printEven=true;
                }
          }
      }
    }