This is interesting, I run the tests using Node (v14.17.6), in "theory" it should give you similar results to Chrome as they both use V8 as the engine, but it's clearly different
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But thanks for pointing it out, I've updated the article adding the test results using the unary operator and
parseFloatwith the unary operator is still 5/6 times slower than
NumberInteresting - I tested on Firefox and using the unary
+was almost twice as fast asNumber- jsbench.me/v2kurpao3r/1The same bench on Chrome showed the two methods almost exactly the same speed - sometimes one would be faster than the other, sometimes not
This is interesting, I run the tests using Node (v14.17.6), in "theory" it should give you similar results to Chrome as they both use V8 as the engine, but it's clearly different