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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 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 128
Operating system:
Mac OS X 10.15.7
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
one year ago
Test name
Executions per second
instanceof
16189103.0 Ops/sec
string type
36577804.0 Ops/sec
string type + undefined
14087656.0 Ops/sec
property
13974287.0 Ops/sec
constructor comparison
16099356.0 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