Run results for: Add using Decimal.js vs Add using native numbers

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.3.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 18

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Multiply using native numbers

2.3M/s

Multiply using numerical strings parsed with Number

30K/s

Multiply using Decimal.js

2K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Multiply using native numbers	2,267,919 Ops/sec
Multiply using numerical strings parsed with Number	30,166 Ops/sec
Multiply using Decimal.js	2,040 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src='https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/decimal.js-light@2.5.0/decimal.min.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

var x = 5.236;

Tests:

Multiply using Decimal.js
for (var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { Decimal('0.00253452345').plus(Decimal('0.042234')) }
Multiply using native numbers
for (var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { 0.00253452345 + 0.042234 }
Multiply using numerical strings parsed with Number
for (var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { Number("0.00253452345") + Number("0.042234") }