Run results for: Nullish coalescing (??) vs logical OR (||)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 16

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
Nullish coalescing (??)	3234921.0 Ops/sec
Logical OR (\|\|)	3233686.0 Ops/sec
Nullish coalescing (??) [short-circuit]	220233300.0 Ops/sec
Logical OR (\|\|) [short-circuit]	216824600.0 Ops/sec

Tests:

Nullish coalescing (??)
let x = null ?? undefined ?? null ?? undefined ?? null ?? undefined ?? null ?? undefined ?? null ?? undefined ?? 1;
Logical OR (||)
let x = null || undefined || null || undefined || null || undefined || null || undefined || null || undefined || 1;
Nullish coalescing (??) [short-circuit]
let x = 1 ?? undefined ?? null ?? undefined ?? null ?? undefined ?? null ?? undefined ?? null ?? undefined ?? 1;
Logical OR (||) [short-circuit]
let x = 1 || undefined || null || undefined || null || undefined || null || undefined || null || undefined || 1;