Run results for: If statements vs zero multiplication and assignment

Is it faster to check if a numeric calculation needs to be performed and assigned to an object property, or just do the calculation against zero and assign it anyway.

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Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:127.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/127.0

Browser: Firefox 127

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

If Statement - False

450.6M/s

Calculate - Positive

143.6M/s

Calculate - Zero

131.9M/s

If Statement - True

131.0M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ If Statement - False	450,608,416 Ops/sec
Calculate - Positive	143,557,504 Ops/sec
Calculate - Zero	131,886,624 Ops/sec
If Statement - True	131,041,256 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var DO_MATHS_TRUE = true,
    DO_MATHS_FALSE = false,
    DELTA = 12345,
    OBJ_SRC = {x: 12},
    OBJ_SRC_ZERO = {x: 0},
    OBJ_DEST = {x: 0};

Tests:

If Statement - True
if(DO_MATHS_TRUE){ OBJ_DEST.x += (OBJ_SRC.x * DELTA) }
If Statement - False
if(DO_MATHS_FALSE){ OBJ_DEST.x += (OBJ_SRC.x * DELTA) }
Calculate - Positive
OBJ_DEST.x += (OBJ_SRC.x * DELTA)
Calculate - Zero
OBJ_DEST.x += (OBJ_SRC_ZERO.x * DELTA)