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Run results for: JS if/if vs if/else if

Benchmark of the speed difference between using multiple IF statements and an open-ended IF/ELSE IF.

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Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 11_2_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.114 Safari/537.36
Chrome 89
Mac OS X 11.2.3
Desktop
4 years ago
Test name Executions per second
if/if 3221475.8 Ops/sec
if/else if 3233312.5 Ops/sec
Script Preparation code:
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var test = 'test'
Tests:

  • if/if

     
    if (test === 'test1') {
      return true;
    }
    if (test === 'test2') {
      return true;
    }
    if (test === 'test3') {
      return true;
    }
    if (test === 'test4') {
      return true;
    }
    if (test === 'test5') {
      return true;
    }

  • if/else if

     
    if (test === 'test1') {
      return true;
    } else if (test === 'test2') {
      return true;
    } else if (test === 'test3') {
      return true;
    } else if (test === 'test4') {
      return true;
    } else if (test === 'test5') {
      return true;
    }