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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) GSA/258.1.520699392 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 16

Operating system: iOS 16.3

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
Math.min	7503311.0 Ops/sec
if	212045800.0 Ops/sec
ternary	226803000.0 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