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Run results for: Symbol vs Number comparison

Is comparing symbols slower than comparing numbers?

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Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.88 Safari/537.36
Chrome 87
Windows
Desktop
4 years ago
Test name Executions per second
Number === Number 2770847.8 Ops/sec
Symbol === Symbol 2780699.5 Ops/sec
Number == Number 2817609.8 Ops/sec
Symbol == Symbol 2811746.2 Ops/sec
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Tests:

  • Number === Number

  • Symbol === Symbol

  • Number == Number

  • Symbol == Symbol