For more information about why you should prefer foreign keys, you should read the MySQL Foreign Key Documentation.
Its supposed to be faster ... since you mysql doesn't check the constraint before adding a row in the child table. But with the foreign key, it would make your life easier since you can use the on update and on delete. I'd go with the constraint.
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