Run results for: Number constructor vs unary plus vs parseInt

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 115

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
Number (with string integer)	3453616.0 Ops/sec
Unary + (with string integer)	4964842.0 Ops/sec
parseInt (with string integer)	3476333.0 Ops/sec
Number (with string float)	2129884.0 Ops/sec
Unary + (with string float)	2674356.0 Ops/sec
parseInt (with string float)	2576776.0 Ops/sec
Number (with integer)	3583318.0 Ops/sec
Unary + (with integer)	5163563.0 Ops/sec
parseInt (with integer)	3554064.0 Ops/sec
Number (with float)	5323241.0 Ops/sec
Unary + (with float)	9180738.0 Ops/sec
parseInt (with float)	5214038.0 Ops/sec
Number (with NaN)	11484890.0 Ops/sec
Unary + (with NaN)	594618900.0 Ops/sec
parseInt (with NaN)	11472940.0 Ops/sec

Tests:

Number (with string integer)
var numberStrInt = Number(Math.floor(1000 * Math.random()).toString());
Unary + (with string integer)
var unaryStrInt = +Math.floor(1000 * Math.random()).toString();
parseInt (with string integer)
var parseStrInt = parseInt(Math.floor(1000 * Math.random()).toString(), 10);
Number (with string float)
var numberStrFloat = Number((1000 * Math.random()).toString());
Unary + (with string float)
var unaryStrFloat = +(1000 * Math.random()).toString();
parseInt (with string float)
var parseStrFloat = parseInt((1000 * Math.random()).toString(), 10);
Number (with integer)
var numberNumInt = Number(Math.floor(1000 * Math.random()));
Unary + (with integer)
var unaryNumInt = +Math.floor(1000 * Math.random());
parseInt (with integer)
var parseNumInt = parseInt(Math.floor(1000 * Math.random()), 10);
Number (with float)
var numberNumFloat = Number(1000 * Math.random());
Unary + (with float)
var unaryNumFloat = +(1000 * Math.random());
parseInt (with float)
var parseNumFloat = parseInt((1000 * Math.random()), 10);
Number (with NaN)
var numberNaN = Number("hello");
Unary + (with NaN)
var unaryNaN = +("hello");
parseInt (with NaN)
var parseNaN = parseInt("hello", 10);