Run results for: string vs numeric enum values compare -

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 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 18

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
string enums	7912.5 Ops/sec
numeric enums	10480.8 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++; } }