Run results for: Ramda vs. Lodash vs. VanillaJS

Compares performance on the same task using Lodash vs two styles of Ramda vs two styles of "native" Javascript. In all cases the task is pulling "counter" property from each item in an array, filtering out odd items, squaring them, then returning those squared values that have less than two digits.

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 11; M2012K11AG) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/93.0.4577.82 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 93

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Lodash	390.3 Ops/sec
Ramda without relying on currying or composition	1093.2 Ops/sec
Ramda with currying and composition	923.8 Ops/sec
VanillaJS functional style	1665.1 Ops/sec
VanillaJS procedural	288.1 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/ramda/0.27.0/ramda.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.5/lodash.min.js"></script>

Script Preparation code:

var data = [];
for (var i = 0; i < 10000; i++) {
     data.push({ counter: i });
}

function isOdd(num) {
  return num % 2 === 1;
}

function square(num) {
  return num * num;
}

function lessThanThreeDigits(num) {
  return num.toString().length < 3;
}

var expected = data.map(o => o.counter).filter(isOdd).map(square).filter(lessThanThreeDigits);

Tests:

Lodash
var result = _.chain(data) .map(d => _.get(d, 'counter')) .filter(isOdd) .map(square) .filter(lessThanThreeDigits) .value();
Ramda without relying on currying or composition
var result = R.filter(lessThanThreeDigits, R.map(square, R.filter(isOdd, R.pluck('counter', data))));
Ramda with currying and composition
var result = R.pipe( R.pluck('counter'), R.filter(isOdd), R.map(square), R.filter(lessThanThreeDigits) )(data);
VanillaJS functional style
var result = data.map(o => o.counter).filter(isOdd).map(square).filter(lessThanThreeDigits);
VanillaJS procedural
var result = new Array(); for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) { var c = data[i].counter; if (isOdd(c)) { var r = square(c); if (lessThanThreeDigits(r)) { result.push(r); } } }

Run results for: Ramda vs. Lodash vs. VanillaJS

Compares performance on the same task using Lodash vs two styles of Ramda vs two styles of "native" Javascript. In all cases the task is pulling "counter" property from each item in an array, filtering out odd items, squaring them, then returning those squared values that have less than two digits.

Lodash

Ramda without relying on currying or composition

Ramda with currying and composition

VanillaJS functional style

VanillaJS procedural