Benchmark: Ramda - Vanilla - MeasureThat.net

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 JS
function capitalize(text) { return text[0].toUpperCase() + text.slice(1).toLowerCase(); } var result = capitalize(text);
Ramada
function capitalize(str) { return str.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + str.slice(1).toLowerCase(); } var result = capitalize(text);

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Vanila JS
Ramada

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/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 121 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

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Vanila JS

10.8M/s

Ramada

10.7M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ Vanila JS	10,782,278 Ops/sec
Ramada	10,720,334 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. The benchmark we're analyzing here capitalizes text, with two variations: one using vanilla JavaScript (Vanila JS) and another using the Ramda library.

**What's being tested?**

In this benchmark, two different approaches are compared:

1. **Vanilla JS**: This approach uses a simple function to capitalize the first character of a string while keeping the rest of the characters in lowercase.
2. **Ramda**: This approach uses the Ramda library, which provides a functional programming style for JavaScript. In this case, the `capitalize` function is defined using Ramda's `R.toUpperCase` and `R.toLowerCase` functions.

**Options compared**

The two approaches differ in how they achieve the goal of capitalizing text:

* **Vanilla JS**: The function uses indexing (`text[0]`) to access the first character and a string slicing method (`text.slice(1)`) to get all characters except the first one. This approach is straightforward but may be slower due to the overhead of string manipulation.
* **Ramda**: The `capitalize` function leverages Ramda's functional programming style, which can lead to more efficient code. However, this also adds dependency on the Ramda library.

**Pros and Cons**

Here are some pros and cons of each approach:

* **Vanilla JS**
	+ Pros: Simple, easy to understand, and does not rely on any external libraries.
	+ Cons: May be slower due to string manipulation overhead.
* **Ramda**
	+ Pros: Can lead to more efficient code using functional programming techniques. Also, Ramda provides a consistent and predictable way of handling various operations.
	+ Cons: Requires the use of an external library (Ramda), which may introduce additional dependencies.

**Library - Ramda**

Ramda is a popular JavaScript library that provides a set of functions for functional programming. Its purpose is to provide a concise and expressive way of writing code, making it easier to write efficient and readable code. In this benchmark, Ramda's `R.toUpperCase` and `R.toLowerCase` functions are used to capitalize the text.

**Special JS feature or syntax**

There is no specific JavaScript feature or syntax mentioned in the provided information. The code uses standard JavaScript syntax and does not include any experimental features.

**Other alternatives**

If you wanted to implement a similar benchmark using vanilla JavaScript, you could consider using other string manipulation techniques, such as:

* Using `toString()` and `toUpperCase()` methods
* Utilizing regular expressions (`RegExp`)
* Leveraging built-in functions like `charAt()` or `substr()`

However, keep in mind that these alternatives might not be as efficient or readable as the original vanilla JavaScript implementation.

If you wanted to explore other libraries for functional programming in JavaScript, some popular options include:

* Lodash
* Underscore.js
* Jest (which provides a set of built-in functions for common operations)

These libraries offer similar functionality to Ramda and can be used to implement different use cases.

Ramda - Vanilla (version: 0)

Capitalize

Comparing performance of: `Vanila JS vs Ramada`

Created: 2 years ago by: Guest

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Vanila JS

Ramada

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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

Ramda - Vanilla (version: 0)

Capitalize

Comparing performance of: Vanila JS vs Ramada

Created: 2 years ago by: Guest

Go to the latest result

Vanila JS

Ramada

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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