Run results for: Switch vs Object Literals

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/119.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 119

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Object Literal

35.7M/s

Switch

1.6M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ Object Literal	35,737,420 Ops/sec
Switch	1,552,222 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var type = 'coke';
var drink;

Tests:

Switch
switch(type) { case 'coke': drink = 'Coke'; break; case 'pepsi': drink = 'Pepsi'; break; default: drink = 'Unknown drink!'; }
Object Literal
function getSnack (type) { var snack; function isDrink () { return snack = 'Drink'; } function isFood () { return snack = 'Food'; } var snacks = { 'coke': isDrink, 'pepsi': isDrink, 'cookies': isFood, 'crisps': isFood, }; return snacks[type](); } var snack = getSnack('coke');