Benchmark: if/else vs. small switch

Script Preparation code:

const a = 1;
let b;

Tests:

switch
switch(a) { case 0: b = 1; break; case 1: b = 2; break; default: b = 3; }
if/else
if (a === 0) { b = 1; } else if (a === 1) { b = 2; } else { b = 3; }

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
switch
if/else

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 3 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/144.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/144.0.0.0

Browser/OS: Chrome 144 on Windows

Test name	Executions per second
switch	5665185.5 Ops/sec
if/else	5671076.0 Ops/sec

Related benchmarks:

if/else vs. small switch (version: 1)