Benchmark: branchless min vs Math.min vs cached min vs ternary vs if (2 values)

Script Preparation code:

var rnd = Math.random;
var branchlessMin = (a, b) => (a > b) * b + (a <= b) * a;
var mathMin = Math.min;
var minTernary = (a, b) => a > b ? b : a;
var minIf = (a, b) => {
   if (a > b) {
     return b;
   } else {
     return a;
   };
};

Tests:

branchless
return branchlessMin(rnd(), rnd());
Math.min (cached)
return mathMin(rnd(), rnd());
Math.min (uncached)
return Math.min(rnd(), rnd());
Min w/ Ternary
return minTernary(rnd(), rnd())
Min w/ If
return minIf(rnd(), rnd())

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
branchless
Math.min (cached)
Math.min (uncached)
Min w/ Ternary
Min w/ If

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: one year ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/102.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 102 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
branchless	6513779.0 Ops/sec
Math.min (cached)	6542263.0 Ops/sec
Math.min (uncached)	5103576.0 Ops/sec
Min w/ Ternary	6553406.0 Ops/sec
Min w/ If	6542018.0 Ops/sec

branchless min vs Math.min vs cached min vs ternary vs if (2 values) (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: branchless vs Math.min (cached) vs Math.min (uncached) vs Min w/ Ternary vs Min w/ If

Created: 2 years ago by: Guest

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branchless

Math.min (cached)

Math.min (uncached)

Min w/ Ternary

Min w/ If

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A