Benchmark: ramda vs javascript (improved 2)

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/ramda/0.27.0/ramda.min.js"></script>

Script Preparation code:



var propertyCell = {
    condition: {
        field: {
            comparator: "IS_TIMERANGE",
            end: [{
                value: 1
            }]
        }
    }
};

var data = [];
for (var i = 0; i < 100000; i++) {
    data.push(propertyCell);
}

Tests:

regular javascript
const result = new Array(); for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) { const array = propertyCell?.condition?.field?.end || []; const propertyValueLast = array[array.length - 1]; const propertyValue = propertyValueLast.value result.push(propertyValue) }
ramda
const result = new Array(); for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) { const array = R.pathOr([], ["condition", "field", "end"], propertyCell) const propertyValueLast = R.last(array); const propertyValue = R.prop("value", propertyValueLast); result.push(propertyValue) }

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
regular javascript
ramda

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

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

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 122 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

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Test name	Executions per second
regular javascript	135.9 Ops/sec
ramda	23.1 Ops/sec

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

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I'll break down the benchmark test cases and explain what's being tested.

**Benchmark Test Cases**

The benchmark consists of two individual test cases:

1. **Regular JavaScript**: This test case uses vanilla JavaScript to extract the value from the `propertyCell` object. The code iterates over the `data` array, which contains 100,000 objects with a single property `end`, and extracts the last element's value.
2. **Ramda**: This test case uses Ramda, a popular functional programming library for JavaScript, to perform the same operation. The code uses Ramda's `pathOr`, `last`, and `prop` functions to extract the desired value from the `propertyCell` object.

**Options Compared**

The benchmark compares two approaches:

* **Vanilla JavaScript**: Uses traditional imperative programming to iterate over the array.
* **Ramda**: Utilizes a functional programming library to abstract away the iteration logic, making it more concise and possibly faster due to optimized native code generation.

**Pros and Cons of Each Approach**

### Regular JavaScript

Pros:

* Familiarity: Developers already know how to use vanilla JavaScript, so there's no learning curve.
* Control: You have direct access to all variables and data structures.

Cons:

* Verbose: The code is more verbose due to the need for explicit iteration.
* Potential Bottlenecks: Inefficient loop iterations can become a bottleneck in performance-critical sections of code.

### Ramda

Pros:

* Conciseness: Ramda's functional programming model allows for more compact and readable code.
* Optimizations: Ramda's optimized native code generation can lead to better performance.

Cons:

* Steep Learning Curve: Ramda has its own syntax and API, which may be unfamiliar to developers without prior experience.
* Over-Abstraction: Excessive use of higher-order functions can make the code harder to understand for those not familiar with functional programming.

**Library Explanation**

Ramda is a JavaScript library designed to provide a concise and expressive way to perform common operations on arrays, objects, and other data structures. It's built on top of the Lodash library, but with a more focused API and optimized native code generation.

**Special JS Feature or Syntax**

Neither test case uses any special JavaScript features or syntax that would require an explanation for developers without deep knowledge of JavaScript.

**Other Alternatives**

If you were to replace Ramda with another functional programming library, some popular alternatives include:

* Lodash: Similar to Ramda but with a broader API and more features.
* Underscore.js: Another functional programming library with a different syntax and approach.
* Babel's `es7` module: Could be used as an alternative to Ramda for more concise code.

However, it's worth noting that the choice of library often depends on personal preference, project requirements, and the specific use case.

Related benchmarks:

ramda vs javascript (improved 2) (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: regular javascript vs ramda

Created: 2 years ago by: Guest

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regular javascript

ramda

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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