Run results for: max vs if condition

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 129

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
test1 Uses IF	18525.5 Ops/sec
test2 Uses Math.max	4189.5 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var max = 999, newMax = 0,
    count = 0;

Tests:

test1 Uses IF
for(let i = 0; i < 1000; i++){ if (i > max ){ newMax = i; } } return newMax;
test2 Uses Math.max
for(let i = 0; i < 1000; i++){ newMax = Math.max(max, i); } return newMax;