Run results for: Math.abs versus two equality checks

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:136.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/136.0

Browser: Firefox 136

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Math.abs

2508.0M/s

Two equals

1794.4M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Math.abs	2,508,023,040 Ops/sec
Two equals	1,794,449,152 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

const thenumber = -90

Tests:

Math.abs
if (Math.abs(thenumber) === 90) { console.log(thenumber) }
Two equals, negative first
if (thenumber === -90 || thenumber === 90) { console.log(thenumber) }
Two equals, positive first
if (thenumber === 90 || thenumber === -90) { console.log(thenumber) }