Run results for: if else return vs return

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 days ago

Test name	Executions per second
if else	13989588.0 Ops/sec
return	12869427.0 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 `Wow ${name}, you have a very long name.`
  }
  return `Hello, ${name}!`
}

Tests:

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