Run results for: Array iter vs set iter (test order change)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.198 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 86

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
native loop arr: few items	3736114.2 Ops/sec
for of set: few items	10616366.0 Ops/sec
for of arr: few items	13108060.0 Ops/sec
native iter set: few items	12974193.0 Ops/sec
for of arr: many items	573589.8 Ops/sec
for of set: many items	329616.5 Ops/sec
native loop arr: many items	14170.5 Ops/sec
native iter set: many items	313148.5 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var fewItemArr = [1, 2, 3];
var fewItemSet = new Set(fewItemArr);
var manyItemArr = Array.from({ length: 1000 }, (_, i) => i);
var manyItemSet = new Set(manyItemArr);

Tests:

native loop arr: few items
let result = 0; for (let i = fewItemArr.length; i--;) { result += fewItemArr[i]; }
for of set: few items
let result = 0; for (const item of fewItemSet) { result += item; }
for of arr: few items
let result = 0; for (const item of fewItemArr) { result += item; }
native iter set: few items
let result = 0; let val = null; const iter = fewItemSet.values(); while (!(val = iter.next()).done) { result += val.value; }
for of arr: many items
let result = 0; for (const item of manyItemArr) { result += item; }
for of set: many items
let result = 0; for (const item of manyItemSet) { result += item; }
native loop arr: many items
let result = 0; for (let i = manyItemArr.length; i--;) { result += manyItemArr[i]; }
native iter set: many items
let result = 0; let val = null; const iter = manyItemSet.values(); while (!(val = iter.next()).done) { result += val.value; }

Run results for: Array iter vs set iter (test order change)

Iterate over an array vs iterating over a set.

native loop arr: few items

for of set: few items

for of arr: few items

native iter set: few items

for of arr: many items

for of set: many items

native loop arr: many items

native iter set: many items