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JS switch vs if/else if
Benchmark of the speed difference between using multiple IF statements and an open-ended IF/ELSE IF.
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/121.0.0.0
Browser:
Chrome 121
Operating system:
Mac OS X 10.15.7
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
2 years ago
switch
6.0M/s
if/else if
1.9M/s
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switch
5,985,122 Ops/sec
if/else if
1,901,726 Ops/sec
Script Preparation code:
var test = 'test'
Tests:
switch
switch(test) { case 'test1': return true; case 'test2': return true; case 'test3': return true; case 'test4': return true; case 'test5': return true; default: return true; }
if/else if
if (test === 'test1') { return true; } else if (test === 'test2') { return true; } else if (test === 'test3') { return true; } else if (test === 'test4') { return true; } else if (test === 'test5') { return true; }