Benchmark: switch vs if js - MeasureThat.net

Tests:

if
const title = "five" if (title === "one") return if (title === "two") return if (title === "three") return if (title === "four") return if (title === "five") return
switch
const title = "five" switch (title) { case "one": return case "two": return case "three": return case "four": return case "five": return }

Historical Performance Data aggregated from 43 community runs

Desktop Results:

Chrome 32 runs

switch

182.2M/s

175.0M/s

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✓ switch: 182,231,840 ops/sec
• if: 174,975,440 ops/sec

Firefox 11 runs

switch

473.6M/s

470.5M/s

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✓ switch: 473,637,376 ops/sec
• if: 470,505,632 ops/sec

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Previous results

Test case name	Result
if
switch

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 28 days ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/26.5 Safari/605.1.15

Browser/OS: Safari 26 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

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644.6M/s

switch

602.3M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ if	644,608,128 Ops/sec
switch	602,325,056 Ops/sec

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated one year ago):

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**Overview of the Benchmark**

The provided benchmark, `switch vs if js`, compares the performance of two different approaches: using an `if` statement and using a `switch` statement in JavaScript.

**What is being tested?**

In this benchmark, we're comparing the execution time of two identical code snippets:

1. The first test case uses an `if` statement with multiple conditional statements.
2. The second test case uses a `switch` statement with the same conditions as the `if` statement.

**Options compared:**

The main difference between these two approaches is how they handle the multiple conditions. An `if` statement checks each condition one by one, whereas a `switch` statement checks the value of the variable against a set of cases and executes the corresponding code block.

**Pros and Cons of each approach:**

* **If Statement:**
	+ Pros:
		- More flexible: can be used for any type of condition.
		- Easier to read and maintain.
	+ Cons:
		- Can lead to performance issues with multiple conditions, especially if the code is executed frequently.
* **Switch Statement:**
	+ Pros:
		- More efficient: can handle multiple conditions in a single statement.
		- Reduces code duplication.
	+ Cons:
		- Less flexible: only suitable for cases that involve checking against a set of predefined values.

**Other considerations:**

In this benchmark, the performance difference between `if` and `switch` statements is relatively small. However, if you were to implement these conditions in a real-world application with a large number of cases, using a `switch` statement might be more efficient.

**Library used:**

There doesn't appear to be any external library being used in this benchmark.

**Special JavaScript feature/syntax:**

None are explicitly mentioned. The code snippets only use standard JavaScript syntax and features.

**Other alternatives:**

If you're looking for alternative approaches, consider the following:

1. **Array-based approach:** You can use an array of strings to represent the cases and iterate through it using a `for` loop or `forEach`. This approach is similar to a `switch` statement but allows for more flexibility.
2. **Object-based approach:** Similar to the array-based approach, you can use an object with string values as keys to represent the cases.
3. **Regular expressions:** You can use regular expressions to match against multiple conditions in a single statement.

Keep in mind that these alternatives might introduce additional overhead or complexity compared to using traditional `if` and `switch` statements.

switch vs if js (version: 0)

switch vs if

Comparing performance of: `if vs switch`

Created: 4 years ago by: Guest

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if

switch

Historical Performance Data aggregated from 43 community runs

Desktop Results:

Chrome 32 runs

Firefox 11 runs

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated one year ago):

switch vs if js (version: 0)

switch vs if

Comparing performance of: if vs switch

Created: 4 years ago by: Guest

Go to the latest result

if

switch

Historical Performance Data aggregated from 43 community runs

Desktop Results:

Chrome 32 runs

Firefox 11 runs

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated one year ago):

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