Benchmark: Switch vs Object Literals

Script Preparation code:

var type = 'coke';
var drink;

Tests:

Switch
switch(type) { case 'coke': drink = 'Coke'; break; case 'pepsi': drink = 'Pepsi'; break; default: drink = 'Unknown drink!'; }
Object Literal
function getSnack (type) { var snack; function isDrink () { return snack = 'Drink'; } function isFood () { return snack = 'Food'; } var snacks = { 'coke': isDrink, 'pepsi': isDrink, 'cookies': isFood, 'crisps': isFood, }; return snacks[type](); } var snack = getSnack('coke');

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Switch
Object Literal

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: one year ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 131 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

Test name	Executions per second
Switch	18174824.0 Ops/sec
Object Literal	146904624.0 Ops/sec

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