Run results for: Option[Double]: box vs unbox

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.0.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 18

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one month ago

Test name	Executions per second
box	91335.6 Ops/sec
unbox	10279.4 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

function None() {
}
None.prototype.tag = 0;
const none = new None();
function Some(payload) {
  this.payload = payload;
}
Some.prototype.tag = 1;

var box = [];
var unbox = [];
for (let i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
  box.push(i % 2 == 0 ? none : new Some(i * Math.PI));
  unbox.push(i % 2 == 0 ? undefined : i * Math.PI);
}

function square(i) {
  return i * i
}

Tests:

box
for (let i of box) { if (i.tag === 1) { square(i.payload) } }
unbox
for (let i of unbox) { if (i !== undefined) { square(i) } }