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Run results for: JS if/if vs if/else if

Benchmark of the speed difference between using multiple IF statements and an open-ended IF/ELSE IF.

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Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.90 Safari/537.36
Chrome 60
Mac OS X 10.12.6
Other
7 years ago
Test name Executions per second
if/if 1818399.9 Ops/sec
if/else if 1805178.9 Ops/sec
Script Preparation code:
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var test = 'test'
Tests:

  • if/if

     
    if (test === 'test1') {
      return true;
    }
    if (test === 'test2') {
      return true;
    }
    if (test === 'test3') {
      return true;
    }
    if (test === 'test4') {
      return true;
    }
    if (test === 'test5') {
      return true;
    }

  • if/else if

     
    if (test === 'test1') {
      return true;
    } else if (test === 'test2') {
      return true;
    } else if (test === 'test3') {
      return true;
    } else if (test === 'test4') {
      return true;
    } else if (test === 'test5') {
      return true;
    }