Run results for: Map vs Object (real-world) Performance (lookup and set)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/117.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 117

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 7 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
Conspicuous Map lookup	99.5 Ops/sec
Conspicuous Obj lookup	77.4 Ops/sec
Conspicuous Map lookup 2	98.8 Ops/sec
Conspicuous Obj lookup 2	83.8 Ops/sec
Conspicuous Map Set	123.2 Ops/sec
Conspicuous Obj Set	98.7 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var keyCount = 16384
var keys = []
var map = new Map()
var obj = {}
var emptyMap = new Map()
var emptyObj = {}


// Hide lookup keys to prevent V8 cheating (AKA Optimizing)
var getConspicuousKey = seed => keys[Math.floor(seed * keyCount)]


// Setup out test objects w/ random values
for (let i=0; i<keyCount; i++) {
  let val = Math.random()
  let key = Math.random()
  keys.push(key)
  map.set(key,val)
  obj[key] = val
}

Tests:

Conspicuous Map lookup
for (let i=0; i<keyCount; i++) { let seed = Math.random() let key = getConspicuousKey(seed) a = map.get(key) }
Conspicuous Obj lookup
for (let i=0; i<keyCount; i++) { let seed = Math.random() let key = getConspicuousKey(seed) a = obj[key] }
Conspicuous Map lookup 2
for (let i=0; i<keyCount; i++) { let seed = Math.random() let key = getConspicuousKey(seed) a = map.get(key) }
Conspicuous Obj lookup 2
for (let i=0; i<keyCount; i++) { let seed = Math.random() let key = getConspicuousKey(seed) a = obj[key] }
Conspicuous Map Set
for (let i=0; i<keyCount; i++) { let seed = Math.random() let key = getConspicuousKey(seed) emptyMap.set(key, seed) }
Conspicuous Obj Set
for (let i=0; i<keyCount; i++) { let seed = Math.random() let key = getConspicuousKey(seed) emptyObj[key] = seed }

Run results for: Map vs Object (real-world) Performance (lookup and set)

Lookup of map vs object (in a real-world test format)

Conspicuous Map lookup

Conspicuous Obj lookup

Conspicuous Map lookup 2

Conspicuous Obj lookup 2

Conspicuous Map Set

Conspicuous Obj Set