Run results for: Array constructor vs literal performance - 100000 items

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 10_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/602.1.50 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0 Mobile/14A403 Safari/602.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 10

Operating system: iOS 10.0.1

Device Platform: iPad

Date tested: 8 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Array constructor - 100000 items	354024.6 Ops/sec
Array literal - 100000 items	356914.8 Ops/sec
Array literal (assign by index) - 100000 items	362310.4 Ops/sec
Array literal (explicit length) - 100000 items	350099.7 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var n = 10;

function Person(name, age) {
  this.name = name;
  this.age = age;
}

Tests:

Array constructor - 100000 items
var arr = new Array(n); for (var i = 0; i < n; i++) { arr[i] = new Person(i + '', i); }
Array literal - 100000 items
var arr = []; for (var i = 0; i < n; i++) { arr.push(new Person(i + '', i)); }
Array literal (assign by index) - 100000 items
var arr = []; for (var i = 0; i < n; i++) { arr[i] = new Person(i + '', i); }
Array literal (explicit length) - 100000 items
var arr = []; arr.length = n; for (var i = 0; i < n; i++) { arr[i] = new Person(i + '', i); }