Run results for: chain of or equals vs includes

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 126

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 6 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
Array.includes	8561529.0 Ops/sec
Or chain	2870035.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var stringToMatch = 'hello';

Tests:

Array.includes
['banana', 'map', 'cloth', 'hello', 'person'].includes(stringToMatch)
Or chain
stringToMatch === 'banana' || stringToMatch === 'map' || stringToMatch === 'cloth' || stringToMatch === 'hello' || stringToMatch === 'person'