Run results for: string vs numeric enum values compare -

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:139.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/139.0

Browser: Firefox 139

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

numeric enums

9K/s

string enums

6K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ numeric enums	9,157 Ops/sec
string enums	6,423 Ops/sec

Tests:

string enums
const a = { one: 'longLiteralTest', two: 'longLiteralTesT', }; 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++; } }