Benchmark: Some vs Find vs Index Of

Script Preparation code:

var data = []

for (let i = 0; i < 5000; ++i) data.push({ username: 'toto' })
data.push({ username: 'titi' })
for (let i = 0; i < 2500; ++i) data.push({ username: 'toto' })

Tests:

Find
data.find(e => e.username === 'titi')
Some
data.some(e => e.username === 'titi')
Index Of
data.indexOf(e => e.username === 'titi')

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Find
Some
Index Of

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 26 days ago):

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Let's break down what's being tested in this JavaScript microbenchmark.

**Benchmark Overview**

The benchmark compares the performance of three different methods to find an element in an array: `find()`, `some()`, and `indexOf()`.

**Options Compared**

1. **Find()**: This method returns the first element that satisfies the provided condition (in this case, finding the element with `username === 'titi'`).
2. **Some()**: This method returns true if at least one element in the array satisfies the condition (in this case, checking if any element has `username === 'titi'`).
3. **IndexOf()**: This method returns the index of the first occurrence of the specified value in the array.

**Pros and Cons of Each Approach**

1. **Find()**:
	* Pros: More concise and expressive code for finding a single element.
	* Cons: May be slower than other methods if the array is large, as it only looks for the first match.
2. **Some()**:
	* Pros: Faster than `find()` because it stops searching as soon as it finds a match.
	* Cons: Returns true instead of the actual element found, which might not be what you want.
3. **IndexOf()**:
	* Pros: Fastest method in this case, since it returns an index value immediately.
	* Cons: May be slower if the array is large or if `username === 'titi'` is not found.

**Library Usage**

None of the code uses any external libraries.

**Special JS Feature or Syntax**

There's no special JavaScript feature or syntax being used in this benchmark. The code follows standard ES6 JavaScript syntax.

**Other Considerations**

* The benchmark script prepares an array with 7500 elements, which is a relatively small to medium-sized dataset.
* The benchmark runs on a desktop platform (Mac OS X) using Chrome 104.

**Alternatives**

If you wanted to test these methods on different platforms or browsers, you could modify the `Script Preparation Code` to create a more dynamic dataset. For example, you could use an array comprehension or generate random data.

Additionally, if you wanted to compare performance with other methods, such as using `filter()` instead of `find()`, you would need to add another test case to the benchmark definition.

Keep in mind that this is just a simple microbenchmark, and there are many factors that can affect the performance of these methods in real-world scenarios.

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 2 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 104 on Mac OS X 10.14.6

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Test name	Executions per second
Find	69779.7 Ops/sec
Some	73690.9 Ops/sec
Index Of	15361951.0 Ops/sec

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Created: 2 years ago by: Guest

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Find

Some

Index Of

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 26 days ago):