Benchmark: bignumber.js vs. big.js vs. decimal.js vs currency.js

bignumber.js vs. big.js vs. decimal.js vs currency.js (version: 1)

- https://github.com/MikeMcl/bignumber.js/tree/v9.0.0 - https://github.com/MikeMcl/big.js/tree/v5.2.2 - https://github.com/MikeMcl/decimal.js/tree/v10.2.0 - https://github.com/scurker/currency.js/tree/v2.0.4

Comparing performance of: Native vs Native + toFixed vs decimal.js vs big.js vs bignumber.js vs currency.js

Created: one year ago by: Guest

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HTML Preparation code:

<!--script src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iriscouch/bigdecimal.js/v0.6.1/lib/bigdecimal.js"></script-->
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/bignumber.js/9.0.1/bignumber.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/big.js/6.0.3/big.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/decimal.js/10.2.1/decimal.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/currency.js@2.0.4/dist/currency.min.js"></script>
<!--script src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/infusion/Fraction.js/v4.0.12/fraction.min.js"></script-->

Tests:

Native
var a = 0.1; var b = 0.2; ((a + b) * b).toString();
Native + toFixed
var a = 0.1; var b = 0.2; ((a + b) * b).toFixed(9);
decimal.js
var a = new Decimal("0.1"); var b = new Decimal("0.2"); a.plus(b).times(b).toString();
big.js
var a = new Big("0.1"); var b = new Big("0.2"); a.plus(b).mul(b).toString();
bignumber.js
var a = new BigNumber("0.1"); var b = new BigNumber("0.2"); a.plus(b).multipliedBy(b).toString();
currency.js
var a = 0.1; var b = 0.2; currency(a).add(b).multiply(b).toString()

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Native
Native + toFixed
decimal.js
big.js
bignumber.js
currency.js

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

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

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 15; Mobile; rv:138.0) Gecko/138.0 Firefox/138.0

Browser/OS: Firefox Mobile 138 on Android

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Test name	Executions per second
Native	2203486208.0 Ops/sec
Native + toFixed	18953290.0 Ops/sec
decimal.js	1661149.1 Ops/sec
big.js	2269318.2 Ops/sec
bignumber.js	1343412.4 Ops/sec
currency.js	772074.2 Ops/sec

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