Benchmark: Object Entries vs Array

Script Preparation code:

window.objects = []
window.arrays = []

for(let i = 0; i < 1000000; i++){
  objects.push({a: true, b: true, c: true});
  arrays.push([true, true, true]);
}

Tests:

Objects
objects.forEach(obj => Object.entries(obj).forEach(() => {}));
Arrays
arrays.forEach(array => array.forEach(() => {}))

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Objects
Arrays

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 4 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.102 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 85 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
Objects	2.3 Ops/sec
Arrays	83.2 Ops/sec

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 6 months ago):

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Let's break down the provided benchmark json and explain what's being tested.

**Benchmark Definition**

The benchmark is testing two approaches: iterating over object entries using `Object.entries()` or iterating over array elements using the built-in `forEach()` method.

**Options Compared**

Two options are compared:

1. **Objects**: Iterating over an array of objects using `Object.entries()` and then calling a callback function on each entry.
2. **Arrays**: Iterating over an array of arrays using the built-in `forEach()` method and then calling a callback function on each element.

**Pros and Cons**

Both approaches have their trade-offs:

* **Objects**:
	+ Pros: Can be faster for large objects due to optimization in V8 (the JavaScript engine used by Chrome).
	+ Cons: May not work as expected if the object has a complex structure or if it's not an object.
* **Arrays**:
	+ Pros: Easier to implement and works for all arrays, regardless of their structure.
	+ Cons: May be slower due to the overhead of the `forEach()` method.

**Other Considerations**

The benchmark prepares two arrays (`window.objects` and `window.arrays`) with 1 million elements each. The scripts use a simple loop to push objects or array elements into these arrays. The HTML preparation code is empty, which means that the only resource used by the benchmark is the JavaScript engine.

**Library and Special JS Feature**

There are no libraries mentioned in this benchmark. However, it's worth noting that `Object.entries()` was introduced in ECMAScript 2015 (ES6) as part of the standard, so this benchmark may be testing the performance of a newer JavaScript engine like V8.

**Test Case Explanation**

The two test cases iterate over an array of objects or arrays using the respective methods. The callback function passed to `forEach()` is not executed for any reason in this case; it's likely that the focus is on measuring the iteration overhead rather than processing the elements.

**Alternatives**

Other alternatives to measure iteration performance could include:

* Using a different data structure, such as linked lists or trees.
* Measuring the time taken to iterate over an array using `for` loops instead of `forEach()`.
* Using a parallelized version of the benchmark to test the effects of multi-core processors.

Keep in mind that this is just one possible way to design a benchmark for iteration performance, and there are many other approaches you could take depending on your specific use case and requirements.

Related benchmarks:

Object Entries vs Array (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: Objects vs Arrays

Created: 4 years ago by: Guest

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Objects

Arrays

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 6 months ago):