Benchmark Run Result for: Which equals operator (== vs ===) is faster?

Which equals operator (== vs ===) is faster?

Is there a performance benefit to replacing == with ===?

Date tested: 2025 years ago

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.168 Safari/537.36 OPR/51.0.2830.40

Test name	Executions per second
test equality	12404.8 Ops/sec
test strict equality	12457.9 Ops/sec

Benchmark definition (click to collapse):

Tests:

test equality
var n = 0; while(true) { n++; if(n==100000) break; }
test strict equality
var n = 0; while(true) { n++; if(n===100000) break; }

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