Benchmark: switch vs if benchmark

HTML Preparation code:

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Script Preparation code:

const THRESHOLD_50 = 50;
const THRESHOLD_20 = 20;
const THRESHOLD_10 = 10;
const THRESHOLD_0 = 0;

function getThresholdBandSwtich (remaining){
  switch (true) {
    case remaining <= THRESHOLD_0:
      return THRESHOLD_0;
    case remaining <= THRESHOLD_10:
      return THRESHOLD_10;
    case remaining <= THRESHOLD_20:
      return THRESHOLD_10;
    case remaining <= THRESHOLD_50:
      return THRESHOLD_10;
    default:
      return null;
  }
};

function getThresholdBandIf (remaining) {
  if (remaining <= THRESHOLD_0) return THRESHOLD_0;
  if (remaining <= THRESHOLD_10) return THRESHOLD_10;
  if (remaining <= THRESHOLD_20) return THRESHOLD_20;
  if (remaining <= THRESHOLD_50) return THRESHOLD_50;
  return null;
};

Tests:

switch
getThresholdBandSwtich(50)
if
getThresholdBandIf(50)

Historical Performance Data aggregated from 10 community runs

Desktop Results:

Chrome 10 runs

787.8M/s

switch

783.9M/s

View exact numbers

✓ if: 787,837,824 ops/sec
• switch: 783,876,800 ops/sec

Results show median performance across all community submissions. Run this benchmark yourself to verify on your device.

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
switch
if

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 15 days ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/151.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 151 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

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switch

601.1M/s

38.4M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ switch	601,148,544 Ops/sec
if	38,444,792 Ops/sec

switch vs if benchmark (version: 1) Benchmark.js

is switch faster than if

Comparing performance of: `switch vs if`

Created: 15 days ago by: Registered User

Go to the latest result

switch

if

Historical Performance Data aggregated from 10 community runs

Desktop Results:

Chrome 10 runs

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

switch vs if benchmark (version: 1) Benchmark.js

is switch faster than if

Comparing performance of: switch vs if

Created: 15 days ago by: Registered User

Go to the latest result

switch

if

Historical Performance Data aggregated from 10 community runs

Desktop Results:

Chrome 10 runs

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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