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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/117.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/117.0.2045.47

Browser: Chrome 117

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
Instanceof	3301627.8 Ops/sec
isArray	3292864.2 Ops/sec
variable.constructor	3339135.5 Ops/sec
variable.constructor name	4826583.5 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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