Run results for: Array isArray vs instanceof vs variable.constructor - MeasureThat.net

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.67 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 87

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.11.6

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Instanceof	1193478.2 Ops/sec
isArray	1178566.0 Ops/sec
variable.constructor	1192510.8 Ops/sec
variable.constructor name	1654487.2 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var test = [1,2,3,4];
var c;

Tests:

Instanceof
if (test instanceof Array) { c++; }
isArray
if (Array.isArray(test)) { c++; }
variable.constructor
if (test.constructor === Array) { c++; }
variable.constructor name
if (test.constructor.name === 'Array') { c++; }

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