Run results for: instanceof Array vs Array.isArray()

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/98.0.4758.82 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 98

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
instanceof Array	1708.9 Ops/sec
Array.isArray()	1804.3 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var arr = new Array(1000).fill(null);
for(let i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
	if(i % 3 === 0) {
    	arr[i] = [1];
    } else if(i % 2 === 0) {
    	arr[i] = {a: 1};
    } else {
      arr[i] = '1';
    }
}

Tests:

instanceof Array
let circle = 5; while(circle > 0) { const check = arr.map(item => item instanceof Array); circle--; }
Array.isArray()
let circle = 5; while(circle > 0) { const check = arr.map(item => Array.isArray(item)); circle--; }