Run results for: Haversine

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/65.0.3325.181 Chrome/65.0.3325.181 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chromium 65

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 6 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Distance1	38.3 Ops/sec
Distance2	38.3 Ops/sec
Distance3	44.0 Ops/sec
Distance4	48.8 Ops/sec
Distance5	40.0 Ops/sec
Distance6	67.7 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

  var TO_RAD = Math.PI / 180;
  
  function toRad(deg) {
   return deg * TO_RAD;
  }
  
  var coords = new Array();
  
  function randomLat() {
   return Math.random() * 180 - 90;
  }
  
  function randomLong() {
   return Math.random() * 360 - 180;
  }
  
  for (var i = 0; i < 5000; i++) {
   coords.push([randomLat(), randomLong(), randomLat(), randomLong()]);
  }
  
  function compute(coord, f) {
   return f(coord[0], coord[1], coord[2], coord[3]);
  }
  
  function test(f) {
   for (var i = 0; i < coords.length; i++) {
    var coord = coords[i];
    compute(coord, f);
   }
  }
  
  var R = 6371009; // m
  var R2 = 6371009 * 2; // m
  
  function distance1(lat1, lon1, lat2, lon2) {
   var R = 6371009; // m
   var dLat = toRad(lat2 - lat1);
   var dLon = toRad(lon2 - lon1);
  
   var a = Math.sin(dLat / 2) * Math.sin(dLat / 2) + Math.cos(toRad(lat1)) * Math.cos(toRad(lat2)) * Math.sin(dLon / 2) * Math.sin(dLon / 2);
   var c = 2 * Math.atan2(Math.sqrt(a), Math.sqrt(1 - a));
   return R * c;
  }
  
  function distance2(lat1, lon1, lat2, lon2) {
   var aLat = toRad(lat1);
   var bLat = toRad(lat2);
   var dLat2 = (bLat - aLat) / 2;
   var dLon2 = toRad(lon2 - lon1) / 2;
   var x = Math.sin(dLat2) * Math.sin(dLat2) + Math.cos(aLat) * Math.cos(bLat) * Math.sin(dLon2) * Math.sin(dLon2);
   return R * 2 * Math.atan2(Math.sqrt(x), Math.sqrt(1 - x));
  }
  
  function distance3(lat1, lon1, lat2, lon2) {
   var aLat = toRad(lat1);
   var bLat = toRad(lat2);
   var dLat2 = (bLat - aLat) * 0.5;
   var dLon2 = toRad(lon2 - lon1) * 0.5;
   var sindLat = Math.sin(dLat2);
   var sindLon = Math.sin(dLon2);
   var x = sindLat * sindLat + Math.cos(aLat) * Math.cos(bLat) * sindLon * sindLon;
   return R2 * Math.atan2(Math.sqrt(x), Math.sqrt(1 - x));
  }
  
function getDistance(lat1, lon1, lat2, lon2) {
    const TO_RAD2 = Math.PI / 180;

    lat1 = lat1 * TO_RAD2;
    lat2 = lat2 * TO_RAD2;
    var sinDeltaLat = (lat2 - lat1) * 0.5;
    var sinDeltaLon = (lon2 - lon1) * TO_RAD2 * 0.5;

    var a = sinDeltaLat * sinDeltaLat + Math.cos(lat1) * Math.cos(lat2) * sinDeltaLon * sinDeltaLon;

    // Return distance in meters
    return 12742000 * Math.atan2(Math.sqrt(a), Math.sqrt(1 - a));
}
  function distance4(lat1, lon1, lat2, lon2) {
   var aLat = lat1 * TO_RAD;
   var bLat = lat2 * TO_RAD;
   var dLat2 = (bLat - aLat) * 0.5;
   var dLon2 = (lon2 - lon1) * TO_RAD * 0.5;
   var sindLat = Math.sin(dLat2);
   var sindLon = Math.sin(dLon2);
   var x = sindLat * sindLat + Math.cos(aLat) * Math.cos(bLat) * sindLon * sindLon;
   return R2 * Math.atan2(Math.sqrt(x), Math.sqrt(1 - x));
  }
  
  function distance5(lat1, lon1, lat2, lon2) {
   var R = 6371009; // m
   var dLat = toRad(lat2 - lat1);
   var dLon = toRad(lon2 - lon1);
  
   var a = Math.pow(Math.sin(dLat / 2),2) + Math.cos(toRad(lat1)) * Math.cos(toRad(lat2)) * Math.pow(Math.sin(dLon / 2), 2);
   var c = 2 * Math.asin(Math.sqrt(a));
   return R * c;
  }

Tests:

Distance1
test(distance1)
Distance2
test(distance2)
Distance3
test(distance3)
Distance4
test(distance4)
Distance5
test(distance5)
Distance6
test(getDistance)

Distance1

Distance2

Distance3

Distance4

Distance5

Distance6