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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 Edg/87.0.664.66
Chrome 87
Windows
Desktop
4 years ago
Test name Executions per second
Number === Number 569020.1 Ops/sec
Symbol === Symbol 465195.3 Ops/sec
Number == Number 542802.7 Ops/sec
Symbol == Symbol 517216.1 Ops/sec
Script Preparation code:
Tests:

  • Number === Number

  • Symbol === Symbol

  • Number == Number

  • Symbol == Symbol