Run results for: Number constructor vs unary plus vs parseInt

Run details:

User agent: 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

Browser: Safari 17

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
Number (with string integer)	5452149.5 Ops/sec
Unary + (with string integer)	4129738.5 Ops/sec
parseInt (with string integer)	5569949.5 Ops/sec
Number (with string float)	5653516.5 Ops/sec
Unary + (with string float)	7893255.0 Ops/sec
parseInt (with string float)	5771877.5 Ops/sec
Number (with integer)	6371983.5 Ops/sec
Unary + (with integer)	9559237.0 Ops/sec
parseInt (with integer)	6412733.5 Ops/sec
Number (with float)	7310431.5 Ops/sec
Unary + (with float)	17624038.0 Ops/sec
parseInt (with float)	9412235.0 Ops/sec
Number (with NaN)	16902120.0 Ops/sec
Unary + (with NaN)	469318592.0 Ops/sec
parseInt (with NaN)	17598678.0 Ops/sec

Tests:

Number (with string integer)
var numberStrInt = Number(Math.floor(1000 * Math.random()).toString());
Unary + (with string integer)
var unaryStrInt = +Math.floor(1000 * Math.random()).toString();
parseInt (with string integer)
var parseStrInt = parseInt(Math.floor(1000 * Math.random()).toString(), 10);
Number (with string float)
var numberStrFloat = Number((1000 * Math.random()).toString());
Unary + (with string float)
var unaryStrFloat = +(1000 * Math.random()).toString();
parseInt (with string float)
var parseStrFloat = parseInt((1000 * Math.random()).toString(), 10);
Number (with integer)
var numberNumInt = Number(Math.floor(1000 * Math.random()));
Unary + (with integer)
var unaryNumInt = +Math.floor(1000 * Math.random());
parseInt (with integer)
var parseNumInt = parseInt(Math.floor(1000 * Math.random()), 10);
Number (with float)
var numberNumFloat = Number(1000 * Math.random());
Unary + (with float)
var unaryNumFloat = +(1000 * Math.random());
parseInt (with float)
var parseNumFloat = parseInt((1000 * Math.random()), 10);
Number (with NaN)
var numberNaN = Number("hello");
Unary + (with NaN)
var unaryNaN = +("hello");
parseInt (with NaN)
var parseNaN = parseInt("hello", 10);