Run results for: Math.min vs if/else vs ternary operator

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 14; XQ-DC72 Build/68.1.A.2.187) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Soul/4.0 Chrome/123.0.6312.99 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 123

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

19.6M/s

ternary

19.2M/s

Math.min

4.8M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ if	19,591,284 Ops/sec
ternary	19,190,920 Ops/sec
Math.min	4,820,386 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

this.numberA = Math.random() * 1000;
this.numberB = Math.random() * 1000;

Tests:

Math.min
return Math.min(this.numberA, this.numberB);
if
if (this.numberA < this.numberB) return this.numberA; else return this.numberB;
ternary
return (this.numberA < this.numberB) ? this.numberA : this.numberB

Run results for: Math.min vs if/else vs ternary operator

Quickest operation to return smaller of 2 numbers

Math.min

if

ternary