Run results for: if-else vs switch short

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

Switch case

1912.2M/s

if-else

1894.8M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Switch case	1,912,152,704 Ops/sec
if-else	1,894,847,104 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"); }