Run results for: switch vs if

Run details:

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

Browser: Chrome 121

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

switch

26.0M/s

3.7M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ switch	25,966,348 Ops/sec
if	3,725,221 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<div class="test"></div>

Script Preparation code:

var v = 8;

Tests:

switch
switch (v) { case 1: break; case 2: break; case 3: break; case 4: break; case 5: break; case 6: break; case 7: break; default: ; }
if
if (v === 1) { } else if (v === 2) { } else if (v === 3) { } else if (v === 4) { } else if (v === 5) { } else if (v === 6) { } else if (v === 7) { } else if (v === 8) { } else { }