Run results for: Sort vs if vs ternary operator (in functions)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.93 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 90

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Array-sort	1503736.2 Ops/sec
ternary	3520963.0 Ops/sec
if-based	3479152.2 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var number = Math.random() * 1000;

function arrayPickCentre(val, min, max) {
    return [val, max, min].sort((a,b) => a > b)[1];
}

function mathClampCustom(val, min, max) {
    return val < min ? min : (val > max ? max : val);
}

function ifPicker(val, min, max) {
  if (val < min) {
    return min;
  } else if (val > max) {
    return max;
  } else {
    return val;
  }
}

Tests:

Array-sort
arrayPickCentre(number, 250, 750);
ternary
mathClampCustom(number, 250, 750);
if-based
ifPicker(number, 250, 750)

Run results for: Sort vs if vs ternary operator (in functions)

Array-sort

ternary

if-based