Run results for: To Boolean

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User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/53.0.2785.116 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 53

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 8 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
toBoolean	6623947.0 Ops/sec
toBool	1571011.1 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

function toBoolean(anyVal,defaultVal)
{
    let bool = defaultVal || false;

    if (typeof anyVal === 'boolean')
    {
        bool = anyVal;
    } else if (typeof anyVal !== 'undefined')
    {
        bool = ((`${anyVal}`).toLowerCase() === 'true');
    }

    return bool;
}


function toBool(stringVal, defaultVal) {
        if (stringVal === undefined)
        {
            return Boolean(defaultVal);
        }
        const strFalseValues = ['0', 'false', 'no'].concat([]);
        if (typeof stringVal === 'string')
        {
            return (strFalseValues.indexOf(stringVal.toLowerCase().trim()) === -1);
        }
        // value is likely null, boolean, or number
        return Boolean(stringVal);
    }

Tests:

toBoolean
toBoolean("true",true)
toBool
toBool("true",true)

Run results for: To Boolean

Checking two methods to convert types to Boolean

toBoolean

toBool