Benchmark: includes vs lodash find

Script Preparation code:

var testprep = {
    'name': 'tony',
    'name': 'will',
    'name': 'zeke',
    'name': 'stan',
    'name': 'davy'
}

var array = ['tony', 'will', 'zeke', 'stan', 'davy']

Tests:

Includes
array.includes('zeke')
lodash find
_.find(testprep, { 'name': 'stan' })

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Includes
lodash find

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 2 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/123.0.0.0

Browser/OS: Chrome 123 on Windows

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Includes

11.2M/s

lodash find

2.6M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ Includes	11,248,764 Ops/sec
lodash find	2,554,466 Ops/sec

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

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**Benchmark Overview**

MeasureThat.net is a website that allows users to create and run JavaScript microbenchmarks. A microbenchmark is a small, well-defined piece of code that measures the performance of specific parts of an application or library.

The provided JSON represents a benchmark with two test cases: "Includes" and "lodash find".

**Test Case 1: "Includes"**

This test case measures the performance of the `includes` method in JavaScript. Specifically, it tests how fast the browser can iterate over an array to check if a certain value exists.

Here's what happens in this test case:

* The benchmark code creates an array with five elements: ["tony", "will", "zeke", "stan", "davy"]
* The `includes` method is called on the array, searching for the string "zeke"
* The browser executes the `includes` method and returns a boolean value indicating whether "zeke" exists in the array

**Pros of this approach:**

* Simple and well-defined test case that allows for easy benchmarking
* Can be useful for comparing different browsers' implementations of the `includes` method

**Cons of this approach:**

* Only tests the performance of a single method, which might not accurately represent real-world usage scenarios
* May not account for other factors that could impact performance, such as array size or data type

**Test Case 2: "lodash find"**

This test case measures the performance of the `find` method from the Lodash library. Specifically, it tests how fast the browser can iterate over an object to find a specific value.

Here's what happens in this test case:

* The benchmark code creates an object with properties named "name" and assigns them values: {"tony": "tony", "will": "will", etc.}
* The `find` method from Lodash is called on the object, searching for a property value that matches "stan"
* The browser executes the `find` method and returns the matched property value

**Pros of this approach:**

* Tests the performance of a specific library function, which can be useful for comparing different libraries or implementations
* Can provide insights into how Lodash's `find` method performs in different browsers and scenarios

**Cons of this approach:**

* Requires the presence of the Lodash library and its dependencies, which may not be present on all devices or systems
* May introduce additional overhead due to the use of a third-party library

**Library: Lodash**

Lodash is a popular JavaScript utility library that provides various functions for tasks such as array manipulation, object transformation, and functional programming. The `find` method is one of its most commonly used functions.

In this benchmark, Lodash's `find` method is used to search for a property value in an object. This allows the test case to focus on the performance of this specific function, rather than relying solely on built-in JavaScript methods.

**Special JavaScript Feature: None**

There are no special JavaScript features or syntaxes used in these benchmark test cases. The code relies only on standard JavaScript language constructs and libraries like Lodash.

In summary, these two test cases measure the performance of different JavaScript methods (built-in `includes` vs. Lodash's `find`) and provide insights into how browsers and libraries execute these functions efficiently. While there are pros and cons to each approach, they both contribute valuable data to the benchmarking process.

includes vs lodash find (version: 0) Benchmark.js

Comparing performance of: `Includes vs lodash find`

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Includes

lodash find

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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

includes vs lodash find (version: 0) Benchmark.js

Comparing performance of: Includes vs lodash find

Created: 2 years ago by: Guest

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Includes

lodash find

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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