Run results for: JSON primitive parse/stringify

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.167 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 64

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 2025 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
primitive	1882564.8 Ops/sec
JSON	975050.6 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

window.primitiveParse = val => {
	switch (val) {
		case 'true':
			return true;
		case 'false':
			return false;
		case 'null':
			return null;
		default:
			return JSON.parse(val);
	}
};

window.primitiveStringify = val => {
	switch (val) {
		case true:
			return 'true';
		case false:
			return 'false';
		case null:
			return 'null';
		case undefined:
			return undefined;
		default:
			return JSON.stringify(val);
	}
};

Tests:

primitive
primitiveParse(primitiveStringify(true)); primitiveParse(primitiveStringify(false));
JSON
JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(true)); JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(false));