Run results for: Number constructor vs unary plus vs parseInt

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 118

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Number (with string integer)	2689554.2 Ops/sec
Unary + (with string integer)	3959345.2 Ops/sec
parseInt (with string integer)	2700141.0 Ops/sec
Number (with string float)	1711632.0 Ops/sec
Unary + (with string float)	2315956.2 Ops/sec
parseInt (with string float)	2194452.0 Ops/sec
Number (with integer)	3000171.0 Ops/sec
Unary + (with integer)	4455656.0 Ops/sec
parseInt (with integer)	2973417.8 Ops/sec
Number (with float)	4459806.0 Ops/sec
Unary + (with float)	8568664.0 Ops/sec
parseInt (with float)	4039367.0 Ops/sec
Number (with NaN)	8723734.0 Ops/sec
Unary + (with NaN)	844908736.0 Ops/sec
parseInt (with NaN)	9154039.0 Ops/sec

Tests:

Number (with string integer)
var numberStrInt = Number(Math.floor(1000 * Math.random()).toString());
Unary + (with string integer)
var unaryStrInt = +Math.floor(1000 * Math.random()).toString();
parseInt (with string integer)
var parseStrInt = parseInt(Math.floor(1000 * Math.random()).toString(), 10);
Number (with string float)
var numberStrFloat = Number((1000 * Math.random()).toString());
Unary + (with string float)
var unaryStrFloat = +(1000 * Math.random()).toString();
parseInt (with string float)
var parseStrFloat = parseInt((1000 * Math.random()).toString(), 10);
Number (with integer)
var numberNumInt = Number(Math.floor(1000 * Math.random()));
Unary + (with integer)
var unaryNumInt = +Math.floor(1000 * Math.random());
parseInt (with integer)
var parseNumInt = parseInt(Math.floor(1000 * Math.random()), 10);
Number (with float)
var numberNumFloat = Number(1000 * Math.random());
Unary + (with float)
var unaryNumFloat = +(1000 * Math.random());
parseInt (with float)
var parseNumFloat = parseInt((1000 * Math.random()), 10);
Number (with NaN)
var numberNaN = Number("hello");
Unary + (with NaN)
var unaryNaN = +("hello");
parseInt (with NaN)
var parseNaN = parseInt("hello", 10);