Run results for: Number.isInteger() vs typeof

Is it faster to detect if a variable is an integer or is it faster to use typeof to verify the type?

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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Chrome 131
Windows
Desktop
one year ago
typeof positive
210.0M/s
typeof negative
193.1M/s
Number.isInteger() negative
175.1M/s
Number.isInteger() positive
169.4M/s
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Test name Executions per second
✓ typeof positive 210,013,104 Ops/sec
typeof negative 193,133,504 Ops/sec
Number.isInteger() negative 175,134,800 Ops/sec
Number.isInteger() positive 169,440,592 Ops/sec
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