Benchmark: string vs number vs symbol (isolated from symbol creation logic)

Script Preparation code:

const a = Symbol();
const b = Symbol();

const c = 1;
const d = 2;

const e = '1';
const f = '2';

Tests:

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

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/136.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 136 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

Symbol

182.1M/s

Number

167.8M/s

String

155.7M/s

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string vs number vs symbol (isolated from symbol creation logic) (version: 1)