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Instanceof vs string comparison vs property checking vs constructor comparison
Measure the performance of instanceOf operator vs comparing a basic string type.
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome Mobile 123
Operating system:
Android
Device Platform:
Mobile
Date tested:
2 years ago
string type
8.3M/s
instanceof
3.7M/s
constructor comparison
3.7M/s
string type + undefined
3.2M/s
property
3.2M/s
View exact numbers
Test name
Executions per second
✓
string type
8,344,410 Ops/sec
instanceof
3,712,870 Ops/sec
constructor comparison
3,703,116 Ops/sec
string type + undefined
3,244,417 Ops/sec
property
3,242,787 Ops/sec
HTML Preparation code:
<script> class TestClass { constructor() { this.a = 2; this.t = 'mesh'; } } </script>
Script Preparation code:
var obj = new TestClass();
Tests:
instanceof
obj instanceof TestClass;
string type
obj.t === 'mesh'
string type + undefined
obj.t !== undefined
property
obj.a !== undefined
constructor comparison
obj.constructor === TestClass