Benchmark: Map vs For Loop - MeasureThat.net

Script Preparation code:

var a = [];
for (var i = 0; i < 1e6; i++) {
  a[i] = Math.random();
}

Tests:

Map
var b = a.map(n => n * 2);
For Loop
var b = []; for (var i = 0; i < a.length; i++) { b[i] = a[i] * 2; }
foreach
var b = a.forEach(n => n * 2);
pre-allocated for loop
var b = new Array(a.length); for (var i = 0; i < a.length; i++) { b[i] = a[i] * 2; }
pre-allocated unrolled for loop
var b = new Array(a.length); for (var i = 0; i < a.length/4; i++) { b[i*4] = a[i*4] * 2; b[i*4+1] = a[i*4+1] * 2; b[i*4+2] = a[i*4+2] * 2; b[i*4+3] = a[i*4+3] * 2; }
++for loop
var b = new Array(a.length); for (var i = 0; i < a.length; ++i) { b[i] = a[i] * 2; }
--for loop
var b = new Array(a.length); for (var i = a.length; i >= 0; --i) { b[i] = a[i] * 2; }
for loop let
var b = []; for (let i = 0; i < a.length; i++) { b[i] = a[i] * 2; }

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Map
For Loop
foreach
pre-allocated for loop
pre-allocated unrolled for loop
++for loop
--for loop
for loop let

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 7 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.87 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 55 on Windows

Test name	Executions per second
Map	1.9 Ops/sec
For Loop	1.6 Ops/sec
foreach	18.0 Ops/sec
pre-allocated for loop	1.7 Ops/sec
pre-allocated unrolled for loop	2.7 Ops/sec
++for loop	1.7 Ops/sec
--for loop	1.6 Ops/sec
for loop let	1.6 Ops/sec

Map vs For Loop (version: 0)