Run results for: string vs numeric enum values compare -

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 135

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

string enums

19K/s

numeric enums

17K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ string enums	18,941 Ops/sec
numeric enums	17,143 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++; } }