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Run results for: is variable undefined? typeof variable === "undefined" vs variable === undefined

Comparing whether checking is (typeof variable === "undefined") is faster than (variable === undefined)

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Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.90 Safari/537.36
Chrome 89
Windows
Desktop
3 years ago
Test name Executions per second
typeof string is undefined 746853440.0 Ops/sec
typeof undefined is undefined 5472651.5 Ops/sec
string is undefined 5716871.0 Ops/sec
undefined is undefined 2874524.8 Ops/sec
Tests:

  • typeof string is undefined

  • typeof undefined is undefined

  • string is undefined

  • undefined is undefined