Benchmark: comparisons - MeasureThat.net

Tests:

number
var a =1 var b=2 if(a===b){ return true; }
string
var a ="Caslkjf" var b="lASDdfjh" if(a===b){ return true; }

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Previous results

Test case name	Result
number
string

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 26 days ago):

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**Benchmark Overview**

The provided JSON represents two JavaScript microbenchmarks that compare different approaches for equality checks using `if` statements. The benchmarks are designed to measure performance differences between comparing values of primitive types (`number` and `string`) using the triple equals operator (`===`).

**Options Compared**

In this benchmark, there is only one option being compared:

1. Using the triple equals operator (`===`) for equality checks.
	* **Pros**: Simple, concise, and widely supported.
	* **Cons**: Can be slower than alternative approaches due to its overhead.

There are no other options being compared in this specific benchmark.

**Alternative Approaches**

In general, when it comes to equality checks, there are a few alternatives to the triple equals operator:

1. `===` (triple equals): This is the most common and widely supported approach.
2. `==` (single equals): This can be slower than `===`, but may be sufficient for simple cases where you only care about whether two values are equal or not, regardless of their data types.

It's worth noting that modern JavaScript engines often optimize these checks at compile-time or runtime to reduce overhead.

**Library Usage**

In the provided benchmark, no libraries are explicitly mentioned. However, it's likely that the benchmark is using a generic JavaScript runtime environment that doesn't require any additional libraries for execution.

**Special JS Features/Syntax**

There are no special JavaScript features or syntax mentioned in this benchmark.

**Test Results**

The latest benchmark results show two test cases:

1. `number`: Chrome 75, Desktop, Windows, with an executions per second (EPS) value of approximately 50 million.
2. `string`: Chrome 75, Desktop, Windows, with an EPS value of approximately 51 million.

These values indicate that the equality checks using `if` statements and triple equals operator are relatively fast in this benchmark. However, without more context or additional benchmarks, it's difficult to draw broader conclusions about the performance characteristics of these approaches.

Overall, this benchmark provides a simple and concise test case for comparing the performance of different equality check approaches in JavaScript.

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 5 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.142 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 75 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
number	50958104.0 Ops/sec
string	54953316.0 Ops/sec

Related benchmarks:

comparisons (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: number vs string

Created: 5 years ago by: Guest

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Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 26 days ago):