Run results for: Switch vs Object Literals

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 120

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Object Literal

142.7M/s

Switch

8.0M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Object Literal	142,693,664 Ops/sec
Switch	7,972,184 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');