Run results for: divide by 2 vs multiply by 0.5

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:132.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/132.0

Browser: Firefox 132

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

multiply by 0.5

5K/s

div by 2

5K/s

div by 2.0

4K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ multiply by 0.5	4,890 Ops/sec
div by 2	4,533 Ops/sec
div by 2.0	4,421 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

const length = 100000;
const tmp_nums=[];
for (let i = 0; i < length; i++) {
  tmp_nums.push(Date.now() + Math.random());
}
nums = [...tmp_nums];
nums_len = length;

Tests:

div by 2
const length = nums_len; for (let i = 0; i < length; i++) { nums[i] /= 2; }
div by 2.0
const length = nums_len; for (let i = 0; i < length; i++) { nums[i] /= 2.0; }
multiply by 0.5
const length = nums_len; for (let i = 0; i < length; i++) { nums[i] *= 0.5; }