Run results for: Multiply using Decimal.js vs Multiply using native numbers

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/106.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 106

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Multiply using Decimal.js	1349.3 Ops/sec
Multiply using native numbers	3029241.5 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src='https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/decimal.js-light@2.5.0/decimal.min.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

var x = 5.236;

Tests:

Multiply using Decimal.js
for (var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { Decimal('0.00253452345').times(Decimal('0.042234')) }
Multiply using native numbers
for (var i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { 0.00253452345 * 0.042234 }