Run results for: Math.min vs if/else vs ternary operator

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 12; SAMSUNG SM-G970U) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SamsungBrowser/17.0 Chrome/96.0.4664.104 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 96

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Math.min	4415230.0 Ops/sec
if	1337851000.0 Ops/sec
ternary	1340370000.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

this.numberA = Math.random() * 1000;
this.numberB = Math.random() * 1000;

Tests:

Math.min
return Math.min(this.numberA, this.numberB);
if
if (this.numberA < this.numberB) return this.numberA; else return this.numberB;
ternary
return (this.numberA < this.numberB) ? this.numberA : this.numberB

Run results for: Math.min vs if/else vs ternary operator

Quickest operation to return smaller of 2 numbers

Math.min

if

ternary