Run results for: branchless max vs Math.max (cached & uncached)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.6 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 17

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

fastMax

4.5M/s

cached Math.max

4.3M/s

Math.max

4.0M/s

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Script Preparation code:

var fastMax = (a, b) => (a - (((a - b) >> 31) & (a - b)));
var max = Math.max;

Tests: