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isNumber vs unary cast
(version: 0)
Benchmark.js
Comparing performance of:
map + find vs reduce + includes
Created:
2 years ago
by:
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HTML Preparation code:
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/2.4.1/lodash.min.js"></script>
Tests:
map + find
var output = _.isNumber('a') && _.isNumber('123') console.log(output);
reduce + includes
var output = +'a' === +'a' && +'123' === +'123' console.log(output);
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map + find
reduce + includes
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(Test run date:
2 years ago
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser/OS:
Chrome 122 on Windows
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reduce + includes
130K/s
map + find
123K/s
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reduce + includes
129,592 Ops/sec
map + find
123,126 Ops/sec
Autogenerated LLM Summary
(model
llama3.2:3b
, generated one year ago):
Measuring the performance of JavaScript code is crucial in understanding how different implementations and libraries can impact execution speed. The provided benchmark definition json shows that it's testing two different approaches to comparison: using the `_.isNumber` function from Lodash library and a simple unary cast. **Options being compared:** 1. **Lodash's `_.isNumber`**: This function checks if a value is a number. 2. **Unary cast**: This approach uses a simple cast operation to check for equality between two strings. **Pros and Cons of each approach:** * **Lodash's `_.isNumber`:** * Pros: * More accurate, as it can handle non-numeric values like NaN (Not a Number) or complex numbers. * Less prone to errors, as the function explicitly checks for numeric values. * Cons: * Adds overhead due to the extra function call and potential additional parsing steps in some implementations. * **Unary cast:** * Pros: * Fast and lightweight, with minimal overhead compared to a dedicated function like `_.isNumber`. * Cons: * May return incorrect results for non-numeric values, especially if the implementation relies on implicit type conversions. **Other considerations:** * **Browser behavior:** The choice of comparison method may affect browser behavior in certain cases. For instance, some browsers might optimize unary casts as a faster operation compared to function calls like `_.isNumber`. * **Library dependencies:** Using an external library like Lodash adds dependency and potential overhead due to the need for loading the library. **Test users special JS feature or syntax:** There is no apparent use of any special JavaScript features or syntax in these benchmark cases. The comparison methods mentioned are quite basic. **Other alternatives:** If you needed more options, there would be several approaches to compare values: * **Number()**: A global function that attempts to convert a value to an integer. * **Finite()**: Checks if a value is finite (not NaN) before attempting to convert it to a number. * **toString() + parseFloat()**: Converts the string representation of the value and then parses it as a float. Keep in mind, each approach has its pros and cons as explained earlier.
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