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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 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 126
Operating system:
Linux
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
2 years ago
string type
12.8M/s
constructor comparison
5.5M/s
instanceof
5.2M/s
property
5.1M/s
string type + undefined
5.1M/s
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Test name
Executions per second
✓
string type
12,835,788 Ops/sec
constructor comparison
5,466,952 Ops/sec
instanceof
5,221,642 Ops/sec
property
5,103,400 Ops/sec
string type + undefined
5,055,160 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