Run results for: falsy vs typeof

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 126

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

falsy

14.8M/s

typeof

413K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ falsy	14,838,622 Ops/sec
typeof	413,197 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

let a = null
let b = null

Tests:

falsy
let a = undefined let b = null if (a) console.log('-') if (b) console.log('-')
typeof
let a = undefined let b = null if (typeof a === 'undefined') console.log('-') if (typeof b === 'undefined') console.log('-')