Benchmark: EventTarget vs custom observable implementation

HTML Preparation code:

<!--your preparation HTML code goes here-->

Script Preparation code:

class CustomTarget {
   constructor() {
     this.listeners = {}; 
   }
  
  on(eventName, listener) {
    if (!(eventName in this.listeners)) {
       this.listeners[eventName] = new Set(); 
    }
    
    this.listeners[eventName].add(listener);
  }
  
  off(eventName, listener) {
    this.listeners[eventName]?.delete(listener); 
  }
    
  send(eventName, ...data) {
     if (!this.listeners[eventName]) {
       return 0; 
     }
    
      for (let fn of this.listeners[eventName]) {
			fn(...data);
      }
    
      return this.listeners[eventName].count;
  }
}
 
const listeners = 10;
const events = 1000;
    
const setupCustom = () => {
  const target = new CustomTarget();
  
  let total = 0;
  for (let i = 0; i < listeners; i++) {
    target.on('foo', (inc) => { total = total + inc });
  }
    
  return () => {
     for (let i = 0; i < events; i++) {
       target.send('foo', 5);
     }
    }
}
    
const setupNative = () => {
    const target = new EventTarget();
    let total = 0;
  for (let i = 0; i < listeners; i++) {
    target.addEventListener('foo', (e) => { total = total + e.detail });
  }
    
  return () => {
     for (let i = 0; i < events; i++) {
		const customEvent = new CustomEvent('foo', { detail: 5 });
		target.dispatchEvent(customEvent);
     }
    }
}
    
const runCustomInt = setupCustom();
const runNative = setupNative();
    
function runCustom() {
  runCustomInt();    
}

Tests:

custom
runCustom();
native
runNative();

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
custom
native

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 15 days ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:149.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/149.0

Browser/OS: Firefox 149 on Linux

View result in a separate tab

Test name	Executions per second
custom	3494.1 Ops/sec
native	280.2 Ops/sec

Related benchmarks:

EventTarget vs custom observable implementation (version: 1)

Compares browser's built-in "EventTarget" with custom similar implementation

Comparing performance of: custom vs native

Created: one year ago by: Guest

Jump to the latest result

custom

native

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A