Run results for: map vs if vs switch

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/137.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 137

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

map lookup

10.7M/s

switch case

7.3M/s

if/else

6.1M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ map lookup	10,729,351 Ops/sec
switch case	7,273,838 Ops/sec
if/else	6,108,986 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var map = new Map([
  [0, "Initializing"],
  [1, "Idle"],
  [2, "Running"]
]);
function switchCase(value) {
  switch (value) {
    case 0: return "Initializing";
    case 1: return "Idle";

    default: return "Running"
  }
}
function ifElse(value) {
  if (value === 0) {
    return "Initializing";
  } if (value === 1) {
    return "Idle";
  } 
  
  return "Running"
}

Tests:

map lookup
let value = map.get(0); value = map.get(32); value = map.get(1);
switch case
let value = switchCase(0); value = switchCase(32); value = switchCase(1);
if/else
let value = ifElse(0); value = ifElse(32); value = ifElse(1);