Run results for: Add using Decimal.js vs native vs Number() vs parseFloat()

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/117.0

Browser: Firefox 117

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 7 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
Multiply using Decimal.js	1681.8 Ops/sec
Multiply using native numbers	2188209.0 Ops/sec
Multiply using numerical strings parsed with Number	3660234.0 Ops/sec
Multiply using numerical strings parsed with parseFloat	15121.6 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src='https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/decimal.js-light@2.5.0/decimal.min.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

var x = 5.236;

Tests:

Multiply using Decimal.js
for (var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { Decimal('0.00253452345').plus(Decimal('0.042234')) }
Multiply using native numbers
for (var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { 0.00253452345 + 0.042234 }
Multiply using numerical strings parsed with Number
for (var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { Number("0.00253452345") + Number("0.042234") }
Multiply using numerical strings parsed with parseFloat
for (var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { parseFloat("0.00253452345") + parseFloat("0.042234") }