Run results for: Perfomance: Switch vs Polymorphism

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 11; ZTE 9030) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.5735.196 Mobile Safari/537.36 OPR/76.2.4027.73374

Browser: Opera Mobile 76

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
Polymorphism	210067.0 Ops/sec
Switch	353636.9 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var class1 = { GetImportantValue: () => 1 };
var class2 = { GetImportantValue: () => 2 };
var class3 = { GetImportantValue: () => 3 };
var class4 = { GetImportantValue: () => 4 };
var class5 = { GetImportantValue: () => 5 };

getImportantValueSwitch = (myClassEnum) => {
    switch (myClassEnum.type) {
        case 'MyClass1': return 1;
        case 'MyClass2': return 2;
        case 'MyClass3': return 3;
        case 'MyClass4': return 4;
        case 'MyClass5': return 5;
    }
}

getImportantValuePolymorphism = (myClass) => myClass.GetImportantValue();

Tests:

Polymorphism
getImportantValuePolymorphism(class1); getImportantValuePolymorphism(class2); getImportantValuePolymorphism(class3); getImportantValuePolymorphism(class4); getImportantValuePolymorphism(class5);
Switch
getImportantValueSwitch({type: 'MyClass1'}); getImportantValueSwitch({type: 'MyClass2'}); getImportantValueSwitch({type: 'MyClass3'}); getImportantValueSwitch({type: 'MyClass4'}); getImportantValueSwitch({type: 'MyClass5'});

Run results for: Perfomance: Switch vs Polymorphism

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50401725/perfomance-switch-vs-polymorphism

Polymorphism

Switch