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	8082.2 Ops/sec
Array literal - 100000 items	1383.4 Ops/sec
Array literal (assign by index) - 100000 items	1567.0 Ops/sec
Array literal (explicit length) - 100000 items	2509.6 Ops/sec
Array constructor (no new) - 100000 items	8113.4 Ops/sec

Tests:

Array constructor - 100000 items
var n = 100000; var arr = new Array(n); for (var i = 0; i < n; i++) { arr[i] = i; }
Array literal - 100000 items
var n = 100000; var arr = []; for (var i = 0; i < n; i++) { arr.push(i); }
Array literal (assign by index) - 100000 items
var n = 100000; var arr = []; for (var i = 0; i < n; i++) { arr[i] = i; }
Array literal (explicit length) - 100000 items
var n = 100000; var arr = []; arr.length = n; for (var i = 0; i < n; i++) { arr[i] = i; }
Array constructor (no new) - 100000 items
var n = 100000; var arr = Array(n); for (var i = 0; i < n; i++) { arr[i] = i; }