Benchmark: bigint-vs-string

Script Preparation code:

/**
 * Gets a random number between 2 bigInts
 * @param {BigInt} max
 * @param {BigInt} [min=0n]
 * @returns {BigInt}
 */
function randomBetween(max, min = 0n) {
  max = BigInt(max);
  min = BigInt(min);
  if (max < min) {
    [max, min] = [min, max]
  }
  const range = max - min;
  const count = calculatePrecision(range);
  let random = new Array(Number(count))
    .fill(0)
    .map(() => BigInt(Math.floor(Math.random() * (2 ** 32))))
    .map((int, index) => int << (BigInt(index) * 32n))
    .reduce((acc, int) => acc + int, 0n);


  let bitCount = countBits(range);
  let minRandom = random >> ((32n * count) - bitCount);
  if (minRandom > range) return randomBetween(max, min);
  else return minRandom + min;
}

function calculatePrecision(range) {
  const result = range >> 32n;
  if (result >= 1n) {
    return calculatePrecision(result) + 1n;
  }
  return 1n;
}

function countBits(range) {
  const result = range >> 1n;
  if (result >= 1n) {
    return countBits(result) + 1n;
  }
  return 1n;
}

const a = randomBetween(10n ** 20n, 10n ** 19n)
const b = randomBetween(10n ** 20n, 10n ** 19n)
aBigInt = a;
bBigInt = b;
aString = a.toString();
bString = b.toString();
aFloat = Number(a);
bFloat = Number(b);

Tests:

float multiply
return aFloat * bFloat;
bigInt multiply
return aBigInt * bBigInt;
float compare
return aFloat === bFloat;
bigInt compare
return aBigInt === bBigInt
string compare
return aString === bString
float greater
return aFloat > bFloat;
bigint greater
return aBigInt > bBigInt;
string greater
return aString > bString
toString bigInt
return aBigInt.toString();
toString float
return aFloat.toString();
toFloat bigInt
return Number(aBigInt);
toFloat string
return parseInt(aString, 10);

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
float multiply
bigInt multiply
float compare
bigInt compare
string compare
float greater
bigint greater
string greater
toString bigInt
toString float
toFloat bigInt
toFloat string

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Run details: (Test run date: 2 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 126 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
float multiply	2617754.0 Ops/sec
bigInt multiply	3609814.0 Ops/sec
float compare	3598857.0 Ops/sec
bigInt compare	3430137.0 Ops/sec
string compare	3840754.0 Ops/sec
float greater	2681895.0 Ops/sec
bigint greater	2874655.0 Ops/sec
string greater	3320578.0 Ops/sec
toString bigInt	1939907.0 Ops/sec
toString float	6072368.0 Ops/sec
toFloat bigInt	3049075.0 Ops/sec
toFloat string	2996676.0 Ops/sec

bigint-vs-string (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: float multiply vs bigInt multiply vs float compare vs bigInt compare vs string compare vs float greater vs bigint greater vs string greater vs toString bigInt vs toString float vs toFloat bigInt vs toFloat string

Created: 6 years ago by: Registered User

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float multiply

bigInt multiply

float compare

bigInt compare

string compare

float greater

bigint greater

string greater

toString bigInt

toString float

toFloat bigInt

toFloat string

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A