Run results for: Branchless vs Branched Angle Inversion

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:129.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/129.0

Browser: Firefox 129

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

branchless

1779.2M/s

branchless in-scope caching

1777.6M/s

branched

597.3M/s

branchless out of scope caching

477.4M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ branchless	1,779,229,184 Ops/sec
branchless in-scope caching	1,777,615,616 Ops/sec
branched	597,312,192 Ops/sec
branchless out of scope caching	477,350,048 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

const PI = Math.PI;
function invertAngleBranch(angle) {
  if (angle + PI > PI) return (angle - PI)
   else return angle + PI 
};
function invertAngleBranchless(angle) {
  return (angle + PI > PI) * (angle - PI) + (angle + PI <= PI) * (angle + PI);
};
function invertAngleBranchlessC1(angle) {
  let tmp = angle + PI;
  return (tmp > PI) * (angle - PI) + (tmp <= PI) * tmp;
};
let tmp2 = NaN; //initialize with float for v8
function invertAngleBranchlessC2(angle) {
  tmp2 = angle + PI;
  return (tmp2 > PI) * (angle - PI) + (tmp2 <= PI) * tmp2;
};
var rnd = Math.random;

Tests:

branched
return invertAngleBranch(rnd());
branchless
return invertAngleBranchless(rnd());
branchless in-scope caching
return invertAngleBranchlessC1(rnd());
branchless out of scope caching
return invertAngleBranchlessC2(rnd());