Run results for: Switch vs Prepared Object Literal vs Prepared Array

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:126.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/126.0

Browser: Firefox 126

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Array Literal

65K/s

Object Literal

65K/s

Switch

59K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Array Literal	65,043 Ops/sec
Object Literal	64,661 Ops/sec
Switch	59,254 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var objLiteral = {
  0: function() {
    console.log('A');
  },
  1: function() {
    console.log('B');
  },
  2: function() {
    console.log('C');
  }
}

var arrayLiteral = [
  function() {
    console.log('A');
  },
  function() {
    console.log('B');
  },
  function() {
    console.log('C');
  }
];

function usingSwitch(c) {
  switch (c) {
    case 0: console.log('A'); break;
    case 1: console.log('B'); break;
    case 2: console.log('C'); break;
  }
}

Tests:

Switch
usingSwitch(Math.floor(Math.random() * 3))
Object Literal
objLiteral[Math.floor(Math.random() * 3)]();
Array Literal
arrayLiteral[Math.floor(Math.random() * 3)]();