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assert: prefer reference comparison over string comparison
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Pointer comparison takes constant time and string comparison takes
linear time unless there is some string interning going on, so this
might be a little bit faster.

Signed-off-by: Darshan Sen <darshan.sen@postman.com>

PR-URL: #41015
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen <tniessen@tnie.de>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Zijian Liu <lxxyxzj@gmail.com>
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RaisinTen authored and danielleadams committed Jan 31, 2022
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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions lib/assert.js
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Expand Up @@ -831,7 +831,7 @@ function expectsError(stackStartFn, actual, error, message) {
details += ` (${error.name})`;
}
details += message ? `: ${message}` : '.';
const fnType = stackStartFn.name === 'rejects' ? 'rejection' : 'exception';
const fnType = stackStartFn === assert.rejects ? 'rejection' : 'exception';
innerFail({
actual: undefined,
expected: error,
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -878,7 +878,7 @@ function expectsNoError(stackStartFn, actual, error, message) {

if (!error || hasMatchingError(actual, error)) {
const details = message ? `: ${message}` : '.';
const fnType = stackStartFn.name === 'doesNotReject' ?
const fnType = stackStartFn === assert.doesNotReject ?
'rejection' : 'exception';
innerFail({
actual,
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -998,7 +998,7 @@ function internalMatch(string, regexp, message, fn) {
'regexp', 'RegExp', regexp
);
}
const match = fn.name === 'match';
const match = fn === assert.match;
if (typeof string !== 'string' ||
RegExpPrototypeTest(regexp, string) !== match) {
if (message instanceof Error) {
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