Run results for: Map() delete while iterating vs clear

When iterating over a Map and clearing after iteration is required, is it faster to remove items at each iteration step or is it faster to iterate and then clear() the entire Map afterwards?

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 27 days ago

Test name	Executions per second
Iterate + clear	49112284.0 Ops/sec
Iterate + delete	195276816.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var dummy = 0;
var map = new Map(new Array(100).fill(null).map((_, i) => [
  function(incrementBy) {
  	dummy += incrementBy;
  },
  { incrementBy: i }
]));

Tests:

Iterate + clear
for (const [fn, obj] of map) { fn(obj.incrementBy); } map.clear();
Iterate + delete
for (const [fn, obj] of map) { fn(obj.incrementBy); map.delete(fn); }

Run results for: Map() delete while iterating vs clear

When iterating over a Map and clearing after iteration is required, is it faster to remove items at each iteration step or is it faster to iterate and then clear() the entire Map afterwards?

Iterate + clear

Iterate + delete