Benchmark: if-else vs switch short

Tests:

Switch case
const a = 1; switch (a) { case 5: console.log("a is 5"); break; case 4: console.log("a is 4"); break; }
if-else
const a = 1; if (a == 5) { console.log("a is 5"); } else if (a == 4) { console.log("a is 4"); }

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Switch case
if-else

Latest run results:

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

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:139.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/139.0

Browser/OS: Firefox 139 on Windows

Switch case

1912.2M/s

if-else

1894.8M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Switch case	1,912,152,704 Ops/sec
if-else	1,894,847,104 Ops/sec

if-else vs switch short (version: 1)