Run results for: Switch vs Object Literals

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) GSA/308.0.615969171 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 17

Operating system: iOS 17.3

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Object Literal

77.0M/s

Switch

13.8M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Object Literal	76,977,960 Ops/sec
Switch	13,839,063 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var type = 'coke';
var drink;

Tests:

Switch
switch(type) { case 'coke': drink = 'Coke'; break; case 'pepsi': drink = 'Pepsi'; break; default: drink = 'Unknown drink!'; }
Object Literal
function getSnack (type) { var snack; function isDrink () { return snack = 'Drink'; } function isFood () { return snack = 'Food'; } var snacks = { 'coke': isDrink, 'pepsi': isDrink, 'cookies': isFood, 'crisps': isFood, }; return snacks[type](); } var snack = getSnack('coke');