Run results for: Map vs For Loop

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2962.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 57

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.12.0

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 7 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Map	4.7 Ops/sec
For Loop	3.4 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var a = [];
for (var i = 0; i < 1e6; i++) {
  a[i] = Math.random();
}

Tests:

Map
var b = a.map(n => n * 2); return b;
For Loop
var b = []; for (var i = 0; i < a.length; i++) { b[i] = a[i] * 2; } return b;