Run results for: if else return vs return

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 13; M2103K19PG Build/TP1A.220624.014) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 118

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

if else

9.0M/s

return

8.9M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ if else	8,954,446 Ops/sec
return	8,930,219 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

function sayHello1(name) {
  if(name.length > 10) {
     return `Wow ${name}, you have a very long name.`
  } else {
     return `Hello, ${name}!`
  }
}

function sayHello2(name) {
  if(name.length > 10) {
     return `Wow ${name}, you have a very long name.`
  }
  return `Hello, ${name}!`
}

Tests:

if else
sayHello1('janry')
return
sayHello2('janry')