Run results for: exception flow control vs. if-else

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/124.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 124

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
try-catch control flow (no exception)	239068832.0 Ops/sec
try-catch control flow (thrown exception)	232598.1 Ops/sec
if-else (hits if)	197436720.0 Ops/sec
if-else (hits else)	173599920.0 Ops/sec

Tests:

try-catch control flow (no exception)
const ok = true; let res; try { if (!ok) { throw new Error('ok = false'); } res = 1 + 1; } catch (e) { res = 1 + 2; }
try-catch control flow (thrown exception)
const ok = false; let res; try { if (!ok) { throw new Error('ok = false'); } res = 1 + 1; } catch (e) { res = 1 + 2; }
if-else (hits if)
const ok = true; let res; if (ok) { res = 1 + 1; } else { res = 1 + 2; }
if-else (hits else)
const ok = false; let res; if (ok) { res = 1 + 1; } else { res = 1 + 2; }