Run results for: JS ::: Try Catch vs Multiple If

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0

Browser: Firefox 64

Operating system: Windows 8.1

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
If	24006230.0 Ops/sec
Try Catch	36738580.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var anObject = {
	child: {
    	grandchild: "hello"
    }
}

Tests:

If
var result = null; if(anObject){ if(anObject["child"]) { if(anObject["child"]["grandchild"]){ result = anObject["child"]["grandchild"]; } } }
Try Catch
var result = null; try { result = anObject["child"]["grandchild"]; } catch(err) {}