Run results for: Array.includes vs OR operator

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

Array.includes

1K/s

Array.includes (cached array)

839/s

OR operator

309/s

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Script Preparation code:

var data = [...Array(10000)].map((_, i) => [i, i]);
var cachedArray = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f'];
var g = 'g';

Tests:

Array.includes
data.forEach(() => { return ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f'].includes(g); });
Array.includes (cached array)
data.forEach(() => { return cachedArray.includes(g); });
OR operator
data.forEach(() => { return 'a' === g || 'b' === g || 'c' === g || 'd' === g || 'e' === g || 'f' === g; });