The reason why "dpkg --print-architecture" is better than "dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH" is that dpkg is a standard part of a Debian system, while dpkg-dev brings huge dependencies. Other than that, they are functionally equivalent - they use the Dpkg::Arch Perl module to determine the architecture, but dpkg-architecture calls it at runtime, whereas in dpkg it's called in the configure script and the atchitecture is compiled in as a constant.
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