Run results for: if-else vs switch short

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/136.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 136

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Switch case

169.6M/s

if-else

120.1M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Switch case	169,608,304 Ops/sec
if-else	120,092,656 Ops/sec

Tests:

Switch case
const a = 1; switch (a) { case 5: console.log("a is 5"); break; case 4: console.log("a is 4"); break; }
if-else
const a = 1; if (a == 5) { console.log("a is 5"); } else if (a == 4) { console.log("a is 4"); }