Run results for: if-else vs switch4

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

Switch case

1007.8M/s

if-else

1004.5M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Switch case	1,007,778,112 Ops/sec
if-else	1,004,450,048 Ops/sec

Tests:

Switch case
const a = 1; switch (a) { case 5: console.log("a is 5"); break; case 4: console.log("a is 4"); break; case 3: console.log("a is 4"); break; }
if-else
const a = 1; if (a == 5) { console.log("a is 5"); } else if (a == 4) { console.log("a is 4"); } else if (a == 3) { console.log("a is 4"); }