Benchmark: Number.isInteger() vs typeof

Tests:

Number.isInteger() positive
Number.isInteger(3) === true
typeof positive
typeof 3 === "number";
Number.isInteger() negative
Number.isInteger("three") === false
typeof negative
typeof "three" === "number";

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Number.isInteger() positive
typeof positive
Number.isInteger() negative
typeof negative

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 26 days ago):

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Let's dive into explaining the benchmark and its various components.

**Benchmark Definition**

The provided JSON represents a JavaScript microbenchmark test case created using MeasureThat.net. The test case compares two approaches: `Number.isInteger()` and `typeof` to detect if a variable is an integer.

**Approaches Compared**

There are two main approaches being compared:

1. **`Number.isInteger()`**: This method checks if a value is an integer by returning `true` if it's equal to its integer value (i.e., `3 === 3`) and `false` otherwise.
2. **`typeof` with string comparison**: This approach uses the `typeof` operator to check if a variable is of type "number". To avoid false positives, a string comparison is used (`"number"`), so that even non-numeric strings are treated as not being numbers.

**Pros and Cons**

**`Number.isInteger()`**:

Pros:

* More explicit and intuitive way to check for integers.
* Often preferred in modern JavaScript code due to its readability and maintainability.

Cons:

* May be slower than `typeof` due to the additional comparison step.
* Can be less efficient if used with non-integer values, as it will still perform a type check.

**`typeof` with string comparison**:

Pros:

* Faster and more lightweight compared to `Number.isInteger()`.
* Can handle non-numeric strings correctly without causing false positives.

Cons:

* Less readable and maintainable due to the use of string literals.
* May be less intuitive for developers familiar with `Number.isInteger()`.

**Library and Special Features**

There are no libraries used in this benchmark. However, it's worth noting that `Number.isInteger()` is a built-in JavaScript method introduced in ECMAScript 2015 (ES6).

**Special JS Feature/ Syntax**

There are no special features or syntaxes being tested here, as both approaches use standard JavaScript language constructs.

**Other Considerations**

* The benchmark assumes that the input values will be either integers (`3`) or strings (`"three"`).
* The `typeof` approach with string comparison may not work correctly for non-numeric values (e.g., `NaN`, objects, etc.).
* Other optimizations, such as using `Number()` instead of implicit conversion, could potentially improve performance.

**Alternatives**

Some alternative approaches to detect integers in JavaScript include:

1. Using a regex pattern (`^[0-9]+$`) to match only numeric strings.
2. Utilizing the `Number()` function with a strict equality check (`Number(x) === x`).
3. Leveraging modern JavaScript features, such as `Int32Array` or `BigInt`, for more efficient integer checks (not applicable in this benchmark).

These alternatives may offer different trade-offs between performance, readability, and maintainability, depending on the specific use case and requirements.

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 11 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 120 on Linux

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Test name	Executions per second
Number.isInteger() positive	10657357.0 Ops/sec
typeof positive	828155776.0 Ops/sec
Number.isInteger() negative	10856196.0 Ops/sec
typeof negative	816862016.0 Ops/sec

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Comparing performance of: Number.isInteger() positive vs typeof positive vs Number.isInteger() negative vs typeof negative

Created: 11 months ago by: Registered User

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Number.isInteger() positive

typeof positive

Number.isInteger() negative

typeof negative

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 26 days ago):