Run results for: JS ::: Try Catch vs Multiple If

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.100 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 61

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.12.5

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
If	2945189.0 Ops/sec
Try Catch	9655103.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var anObject = {
	child: {
    	grandchild: "hello"
    }
}

Tests:

If
var result = null; if(anObject){ if(anObject["child"]) { if(anObject["child"]["grandchild"]){ result = anObject["child"]["grandchild"]; } } }
Try Catch
var result = null; try { result = anObject["child"]["grandchild"]; } catch(err) {}