Run results for: If statements vs zero multiplication and assignment

Is it faster to check if a numeric calculation needs to be performed and assigned to an object property, or just do the calculation against zero and assign it anyway.

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 10_3_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/603.1.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/62.0.3202.70 Mobile/14G60 Safari/602.1

Browser: Chrome Mobile iOS 62

Operating system: iOS 10.3.3

Device Platform: iPad

Date tested: 2024 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
If Statement - True	668254.9 Ops/sec
If Statement - False	2776712.0 Ops/sec
Calculate - Positive	869248.4 Ops/sec
Calculate - Zero	837783.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var DO_MATHS_TRUE = true,
    DO_MATHS_FALSE = false,
    DELTA = 12345,
    OBJ_SRC = {x: 12},
    OBJ_SRC_ZERO = {x: 0},
    OBJ_DEST = {x: 0};

Tests:

If Statement - True
if(DO_MATHS_TRUE){ OBJ_DEST.x += (OBJ_SRC.x * DELTA) }
If Statement - False
if(DO_MATHS_FALSE){ OBJ_DEST.x += (OBJ_SRC.x * DELTA) }
Calculate - Positive
OBJ_DEST.x += (OBJ_SRC.x * DELTA)
Calculate - Zero
OBJ_DEST.x += (OBJ_SRC_ZERO.x * DELTA)

Run results for: If statements vs zero multiplication and assignment

Is it faster to check if a numeric calculation needs to be performed and assigned to an object property, or just do the calculation against zero and assign it anyway.

If Statement - True

If Statement - False

Calculate - Positive

Calculate - Zero