Run results for: Symbol vs Number comparison

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 14_2_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.0.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 14

Operating system: iOS 14.2.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Number === Number	3108193.8 Ops/sec
Symbol === Symbol	3140022.5 Ops/sec
Number == Number	3140352.2 Ops/sec
Symbol == Symbol	3163127.5 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

n1 = 1
n2 = 2
s1 = Symbol.for('ala ma kotb')
s2 = Symbol.for('ala ma kota')

Tests:

Number === Number
n1 === n2
Symbol === Symbol
s1 === s2
Number == Number
n1 == n2
Symbol == Symbol
s1 == s2

Run results for: Symbol vs Number comparison

Is comparing symbols slower than comparing numbers?

Number === Number

Symbol === Symbol

Number == Number

Symbol == Symbol