Run results for: Number.isInteger() vs typeof

Is it faster to detect if a variable is an integer or is it faster to use typeof to verify the type?

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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Chrome 120
Linux
Desktop
2 years ago
Test name Executions per second
Number.isInteger() positive 10657357.0 Ops/sec
typeof positive 828155776.0 Ops/sec
Number.isInteger() negative 10856196.0 Ops/sec
typeof negative 816862016.0 Ops/sec
Tests:

  • Number.isInteger() positive

  • typeof positive

  • Number.isInteger() negative

  • typeof negative