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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 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/94.0.4606.81 Safari/537.36
Chrome 94
Mac OS X 10.15.7
Desktop
3 years ago
Test name Executions per second
typeof string is undefined 957773440.0 Ops/sec
typeof undefined is undefined 8102878.5 Ops/sec
string is undefined 8007153.0 Ops/sec
undefined is undefined 3941918.0 Ops/sec
Tests:

  • typeof string is undefined

  • typeof undefined is undefined

  • string is undefined

  • undefined is undefined