Run results for: Switch vs Object Literal - testing with simpler data

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/100.0.4896.75 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 100

Operating system: Fedora

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Switch	304407.7 Ops/sec
Object Literal	300031.8 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var animal = "dog"

Tests:

Switch
function test(animal) { switch(animal){ case 'cat': return 'Kitten' case 'cattle': return 'Calf' case 'cheetah': return 'Cub' case 'dog': return 'Pup' default: return "I don't know that" } } console.log(test(animal))
Object Literal
function test(animal) { var babyAnimal = { cat:'Kitten', cattle:'Calf', cheetah:'Cub', dog:'Pup' } return babyAnimal[animal] ?? "I don't know that" } console.log(test(animal))