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 negative
184.0M/s
typeof positive
178.7M/s
Number.isInteger() negative
143.6M/s
Number.isInteger() positive
142.8M/s
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Test name Executions per second
✓ typeof negative 184,021,136 Ops/sec
typeof positive 178,711,984 Ops/sec
Number.isInteger() negative 143,607,936 Ops/sec
Number.isInteger() positive 142,764,800 Ops/sec
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