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Run results for: is variable undefined? typeof variable === "undefined" vs variable === undefined

Comparing whether checking is (typeof variable === "undefined") is faster than (variable === undefined)

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Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.90 Safari/537.36
Chrome 89
Windows
Desktop
3 years ago
Test name Executions per second
typeof string is undefined 732493184.0 Ops/sec
typeof undefined is undefined 5397193.0 Ops/sec
string is undefined 5705336.5 Ops/sec
undefined is undefined 2818543.2 Ops/sec
Tests:

  • typeof string is undefined

    AخA
     
    typeof "not undefined" === "undefined"

  • typeof undefined is undefined

     
    typeof undefined === "undefined"

  • string is undefined

     
    "not undefined" === undefined

  • undefined is undefined

     
    undefined === undefined