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Run results for: is variable undefined? typeof variable === "undefined" vs variable === undefined

Comparing whether checking is (typeof variable === "undefined") is faster than (variable === undefined)

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Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.5 Safari/605.1.15
Safari 17
Mac OS X 10.15.7
Desktop
4 months ago
Test name Executions per second
typeof string is undefined 607229952.0 Ops/sec
typeof undefined is undefined 20353254.0 Ops/sec
string is undefined 20009026.0 Ops/sec
undefined is undefined 10495912.0 Ops/sec
Tests:

  • typeof string is undefined

  • typeof undefined is undefined

  • string is undefined

  • undefined is undefined