Run results for: if else vs return

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 119

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 11 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
if else	37222524.0 Ops/sec
return	37117716.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

function sayHello1(name) {
  if(name.length > 10) {
     return "Wow ${name}, you have a very long name."
  } else {
     return "Hello, ${name}!"
  }
}

function sayHello2(name) {
  if(name.length <= 10) return "Hello, ${name}!"
  return "Wow ${name}, you have a very long name."
}

Tests:

if else
sayHello1('janry')
return
sayHello2('janry')