Run results for: string comparison vs array includes

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; Mi 9 SE) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/94.0.4606.85 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 94

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
string compare	4756604.0 Ops/sec
array includes	4788929.5 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

function stringCompare(x) {
  return x === '' || x === 'USA' || x === 'Canada' || x === 'Mexico' || x === 'UK' || x === 'Germany' || x === 'Sweden';
}

function arrayIncludes(x) {
  return ['', 'USA', 'Canada', 'Mexico', 'UK', 'Germany', 'Sweden'].includes(x);
}

Tests:

string compare
stringCompare('abc');
array includes
arrayIncludes('abc');

Run results for: string comparison vs array includes

string compare

array includes