Benchmark: ramda capitalize vs vanila capitalize

HTML Preparation code:

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

Script Preparation code:

var text = 'lorem ipsum dolor sit amet';

Tests:

vanila
const capitalize = R.when( R.is(String), R.pipe(R.toLower, R.replace(/^./, R.toUpper)), ); var result = capitalize(text);
ramda
function capitalize(text) { return text[0].toUpperCase() + text.slice(1).toLowerCase(); } var result = capitalize(text);

Historical Performance Data aggregated from 16 community runs

Desktop Results:

Chrome 16 runs

ramda

10.1M/s

vanila

830K/s

Fastest: ramda (12.2x faster)

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✓ ramda: 10,140,593 ops/sec
• vanila: 830,025 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
vanila
ramda

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 7 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.127 Safari/537.36 OPR/60.3.3004.55692

Browser/OS: Opera 60 on Linux

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ramda

474K/s

vanila

42K/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ ramda	473,852 Ops/sec
vanila	42,135 Ops/sec

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

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**Benchmark Overview**

The benchmark compares two different approaches to implement string capitalization in JavaScript: Ramda's `capitalize` function and vanilla JavaScript. The test cases are designed to measure the performance difference between these two implementations.

**Options Compared**

In this benchmark, we have two main options being compared:

1. **Ramda's `capitalize` function**: This is a higher-order function that takes a string as input and returns the capitalized version of the string. It uses a pipeline of functions to achieve this:
	* `R.is(String)`: checks if the input is a string.
	* `R.pipe()`: applies the next function in the pipeline only if the previous one returns true.
	* `R.toLower`: converts the string to lowercase.
	* `R.replace(/^./, R.toUpper)`: replaces the first character of the string with its uppercase equivalent.
2. **Vanilla JavaScript**: This implementation uses a simple loop to iterate over each character in the string and convert it to uppercase.

**Pros and Cons**

Here are some pros and cons of each approach:

* **Ramda's `capitalize` function**:
	+ Pros:
		- More concise and expressive code.
		- Reusable and composable functions.
	+ Cons:
		- Requires external library (Ramda).
		- May have additional overhead due to function calls.
* **Vanilla JavaScript**:
	+ Pros:
		- No external dependencies.
		- Simple and straightforward implementation.
	+ Cons:
		- Longer code.
		- Less reusable or composable.

**Library Used**

In this benchmark, the Ramda library is used. Ramda is a functional programming library for JavaScript that provides a set of higher-order functions for manipulating arrays, objects, and other data structures. The `capitalize` function is one of its many useful utilities.

**Special JS Feature or Syntax**

There are no special features or syntaxes being tested in this benchmark. Both implementations use standard JavaScript syntax.

**Benchmark Preparation Code**

The preparation code for the benchmark includes:

* A script tag that loads the Ramda library.
* A string variable `text` that is used as input to both implementations.

**Individual Test Cases**

There are two test cases:

1. **Vanilla JavaScript**: This implementation uses a simple loop to iterate over each character in the string and convert it to uppercase.
2. **Ramda's `capitalize` function**: This implementation uses Ramda's pipeline of functions to achieve string capitalization.

**Latest Benchmark Results**

The latest benchmark results show that:

* Ramda's `capitalize` function is faster than vanilla JavaScript on this specific test case.
* Both implementations have similar performance across different browsers and devices.

**Other Alternatives**

If you're looking for alternatives to Ramda, there are other functional programming libraries available for JavaScript, such as Lodash or Immutable.js. However, these libraries may introduce additional dependencies and overhead compared to Ramda.

In summary, this benchmark compares two approaches to string capitalization in JavaScript: Ramda's `capitalize` function and vanilla JavaScript. The results show that Ramda's implementation is faster than the vanilla JavaScript approach on this specific test case.

ramda capitalize vs vanila capitalize (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: `vanila vs ramda`

Created: 4 years ago by: Guest

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vanila

ramda

Historical Performance Data aggregated from 16 community runs

Desktop Results:

Chrome 16 runs

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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

ramda capitalize vs vanila capitalize (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: vanila vs ramda

Created: 4 years ago by: Guest

Go to the latest result

vanila

ramda

Historical Performance Data aggregated from 16 community runs

Desktop Results:

Chrome 16 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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