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Benchmark Overview

The benchmark measures the performance difference between two approaches:

1. flatMap with an arrow function
2. map followed by flat(2) with an arrow function

Script Preparation Code

The script preparation code is:

var arr = Array(10,000).fill(0);

This creates an array of 10,000 zeros.

Html Preparation Code

There is no html preparation code provided.

Library Usage

In the benchmark, we can see that it uses the Array.prototype.flatMap() and Array.prototype.map() methods. These methods are part of the ECMAScript standard and do not require any additional libraries to be included.

However, in some browsers, flat(2) is not supported by default. In this case, it's possible that a polyfill or transpiler was used to make flat work.

Special JavaScript Features/Syntax

There are no special JavaScript features or syntaxes being tested in this benchmark.

Benchmark Test Cases

The test cases compare the performance of two approaches:

1. flatMap: Using flatMap() with an arrow function to flatten an array of arrays.

arr.flatMap((x) => [[1, 2], [1, 2]].flatMap(y => [x, y]));

2. map + flat(2): Using map() followed by flat(2) with an arrow function to flatten an array of arrays.

arr.map((x) => [[1, 2], [1, 2]].map(y => [x, y])).flat(2);

Benchmark Results

The benchmark results show the performance of each approach on a Chrome browser:

• map + flat: 1327.55 executions per second
• flatMap: 566.32 executions per second

Other Alternatives

If the flatMap method was not supported by the browser, alternative approaches could have been used, such as:

1. Using a custom implementation of flatMap using map() and concat().
2. Using a library that provides a polyfill for flat(2), such as Lodash or Underscore.js.

However, in this case, the Array.prototype.flatMap() method is used, which is a built-in feature of JavaScript and does not require any additional libraries to be included.