Benchmark: lodash groupBy vs Array.reduce vs Ramda on million items

HTML Preparation code:


<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/ramda/0.27.1/ramda.min.js'></script>
<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.21/lodash.min.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

var max2 = 1000000;

var data = [];
for (var i = 0; i <= max2; i++) { data.push({ id: i }); }

Tests:

Lodash
_.groupBy(data, ({ id }) => id)
Native
data.reduce((acc, item) => { acc[item.id] = item; return acc; }, {})
Ramda
R.groupBy(data => data.id)

Historical Performance Data aggregated from 11 community runs

Desktop Results:

Chrome 11 runs

Ramda

139.9M/s

Native

54/s

Lodash

23/s

Fastest: Ramda (6003678.9x faster)

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✓ Ramda: 139,885,232 ops/sec
• Native: 54 ops/sec
• Lodash: 23 ops/sec

Results show median performance across all community submissions. Run this benchmark yourself to verify on your device.

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Lodash
Native
Ramda

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: one year ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 137 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

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Ramda

165.0M/s

Native

79/s

Lodash

30/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ Ramda	165,029,312 Ops/sec
Native	79 Ops/sec
Lodash	30 Ops/sec

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated one year ago):

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Measuring the performance of different approaches to group data by an identifier using JavaScript libraries like Lodash, Ramda, and native code.

**Overview**

The benchmark compares three approaches:

1. **Lodash**: Using the `_.groupBy()` function from Lodash library.
2. **Native**: Implementing the grouping logic using a simple loop in JavaScript.
3. **Ramda**: Using the `R.groupBy()` function from Ramda library.

**Options Compared**

* Memory usage: None explicitly mentioned, but Ramda's `R.groupBy()` might be more memory-efficient due to its immutability and ability to handle large datasets without modifying the original data.
* Computational complexity: The native approach has a time complexity of O(n), while Lodash and Ramda have a time complexity of O(n log n) due to their recursive or iterative implementations.

**Pros and Cons**

* **Native**: Pros:
	+ Faster execution times, especially for large datasets.
	+ No additional dependencies or libraries required.
	+ Control over the implementation and performance optimization.
* Cons:
	+ Requires manual memory management, which can be error-prone.
	+ Limited to JavaScript engines that support its optimizations.
* **Lodash**: Pros:
	+ Easy to use and understand for developers familiar with Lodash.
	+ Provides a familiar API for grouping data.
	+ Can be faster than native code due to caching and optimization techniques.
* Cons:
	+ Adds an additional dependency to the project.
	+ May not be as performant as native code or Ramda's implementation.
* **Ramda**: Pros:
	+ Immutability ensures thread-safety and predictability.
	+ Provides a concise and expressive API for grouping data.
	+ Can be faster than Lodash due to its optimized implementation.
* Cons:
	+ Requires an additional dependency to the project.
	+ May have a steeper learning curve due to its functional programming paradigm.

**Library Descriptions**

* **Lodash**: A popular JavaScript utility library that provides a wide range of functions for tasks like data manipulation, string manipulation, and more. `_.groupBy()` is a part of Lodash's data manipulation module.
* **Ramda**: A functional programming library for JavaScript that provides a set of pure functions for common tasks like array operations, object manipulation, and more. `R.groupBy()` is a part of Ramda's collection of grouping and filtering functions.

**Special JS Features or Syntax**

None mentioned explicitly in the provided benchmark definition.

lodash groupBy vs Array.reduce vs Ramda on million items (version: 0) Benchmark.js

Comparing performance of: `Lodash vs Native vs Ramda`

Created: 5 years ago by: Guest

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Lodash

Native

Ramda

Historical Performance Data aggregated from 11 community runs

Desktop Results:

Chrome 11 runs

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated one year ago):

lodash groupBy vs Array.reduce vs Ramda on million items (version: 0) Benchmark.js

Comparing performance of: Lodash vs Native vs Ramda

Created: 5 years ago by: Guest

Go to the latest result

Lodash

Native

Ramda

Historical Performance Data aggregated from 11 community runs

Desktop Results:

Chrome 11 runs

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated one year ago):

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