Run results for: string vs numeric enum values compare

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:134.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/134.0

Browser: Firefox 134

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

numeric enums

13K/s

string enums

9K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ numeric enums	13,028 Ops/sec
string enums	9,213 Ops/sec

Tests:

string enums
const a = { one: 'one', two: 'two', }; let c = 0; for (let i = 0; i < 100000; i++) { const v = i % 2 === 0 ? a.one : a.two; if (v === a.one) { c++; } }
numeric enums
const a = { one: 1, two: 2, }; let c = 0; for (let i = 0; i < 100000; i++) { const v = i % 2 === 0 ? a.one : a.two; if (v === a.one) { c++; } }