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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_3_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/134.0.6998.99 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Chrome Mobile iOS 134

Operating system: iOS 18.3.2

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Multiply using native numbers

2.6M/s

Multiply using Decimal.js

2K/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ Multiply using native numbers	2,646,489 Ops/sec
Multiply using Decimal.js	2,122 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').times(Decimal('0.042234')) }
Multiply using native numbers
for (var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { 0.00253452345 * 0.042234 }