Run results for: Branchless vs Branched Angle Inversion

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 122

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

branchless in-scope caching

7.3M/s

branchless

7.2M/s

branched

7.1M/s

branchless out of scope caching

6.8M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ branchless in-scope caching	7,257,170 Ops/sec
branchless	7,216,884 Ops/sec
branched	7,105,856 Ops/sec
branchless out of scope caching	6,805,008 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

const PI = Math.PI;
function invertAngleBranch(angle) {
  if (angle + PI > PI) return (angle - PI)
   else return angle + PI 
};
function invertAngleBranchless(angle) {
  return (angle + PI > PI) * (angle - PI) + (angle + PI <= PI) * (angle + PI);
};
function invertAngleBranchlessC1(angle) {
  let tmp = angle + PI;
  return (tmp > PI) * (angle - PI) + (tmp <= PI) * tmp;
};
let tmp2 = NaN; //initialize with float for v8
function invertAngleBranchlessC2(angle) {
  tmp2 = angle + PI;
  return (tmp2 > PI) * (angle - PI) + (tmp2 <= PI) * tmp2;
};
var rnd = Math.random;

Tests:

branched
return invertAngleBranch(rnd());
branchless
return invertAngleBranchless(rnd());
branchless in-scope caching
return invertAngleBranchlessC1(rnd());
branchless out of scope caching
return invertAngleBranchlessC2(rnd());