Benchmark: return vs throw-catch

HTML Preparation code:

<!--your preparation HTML code goes here-->

Script Preparation code:

function rtrn(n) {
    switch (n) {
        case 0:
            return 'a';
        case 1:
            return 'b';
        case 2:
            return 'c';
        default:
            return false;
    }
}

function thrw(n) {
    switch (n) {
        case 0:
            return 'a';
        case 1:
            return 'b';
        case 2:
            return 'c';
        default:
            throw new Error();
    }
}

Tests:

return
let values = []; for (let i = 0; i < 4; ++i) { values.push(rtrn(i)); }
throw catch
let values = []; for (let i = 0; i < 4; ++i) { try { values.push(thrw(i)); }catch{ values.push(false); } }

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
return
throw catch

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 2 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:152.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/152.0

Browser/OS: Firefox 152 on Windows

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return

103.1M/s

throw catch

886K/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ return	103,125,592 Ops/sec
throw catch	885,888 Ops/sec

return vs throw-catch (version: 1)

Comparing performance of: `return vs throw catch`

Created: 2 months ago by: Registered User

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return

throw catch

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

return vs throw-catch (version: 1)

Comparing performance of: return vs throw catch

Created: 2 months ago by: Registered User

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return

throw catch

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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