Run results for: string vs numeric enum values compare

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:137.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/137.0

Browser: Firefox 137

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

numeric enums

5K/s

string enums

2K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ numeric enums	5,033 Ops/sec
string enums	2,497 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++; } }