Run results for: Array.reduce vs for loop vs Array.forEach vs for of loop

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.167 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 64

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.13.3

Device Platform: Other

Date tested: 2024 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Array.reduce	62632.2 Ops/sec
for loop	581607.1 Ops/sec
Array.forEach	354970.4 Ops/sec
for of loop	441000.3 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

//Create an array of 1000 random intergers between 1 and 10000
var arrRandom = [];
for(var intCtr=0; intCtr<1000; intCtr++) {
  arrRandom.push(Math.floor(Math.random() * Math.floor(10000)));
}

function reduceCallback(accum, curr) {
	return accum+curr;
}

function doRedeuce(pArray) {
	return pArray.reduce(reduceCallback);
}
function doForLoop(pArray) {
	var accum = 0;
	var arrLength = pArray.length;
	for(var intCtr=0; intCtr<arrLength; intCtr++) {
		accum += pArray[intCtr];
	}
	return accum;
}
function doForOfLoop(pArray) {
	var accum = 0;
	for(var value of pArray) {
		accum += value;
	}
	return accum;
}
function doForEach(pArray) {
	var accum = 0;
	pArray.forEach(function(item) {
		accum += item;
	});
}

Tests:

Array.reduce
var redeuceResult=0; redeuceResult = doRedeuce(arrRandom);
for loop
var loopResult=0; loopResult = doForLoop(arrRandom);
Array.forEach
var forEachResult=0 forEachResult = doForEach(arrRandom)
for of loop
var forOfResult=0 forOfResult = doForOfLoop(arrRandom)

Run results for: Array.reduce vs for loop vs Array.forEach vs for of loop

A test summing 1000 random numbers, 1 - 10000

Array.reduce

for loop

Array.forEach

for of loop