Run results for: Ramda vs. Lodash vs vanilla js

Compares performance on the same task using Lodash vs two styles of Ramda vs two styles of "native" Javascript. In all cases the task is pulling "counter" property from each item in an array, filtering out odd items, squaring them, then returning those squared values that have less than two digits.

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 119

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Lodash

4.7M/s

Ramda without relying on currying or composition

63K/s

Ramda with currying and composition

62K/s

Vanilla Js

13K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Lodash	4,692,278 Ops/sec
Ramda without relying on currying or composition	62,679 Ops/sec
Ramda with currying and composition	61,993 Ops/sec
Vanilla Js	13,380 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/ramda/0.27.1/ramda.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.20/lodash.min.js"></script>

Script Preparation code:

var data = _.range(10000);

function isOdd(num) {
  return num % 2 === 1;
}

function square(num) {
  return num * num;
}

function lessThanThreeDigits(num) {
  return num.toString().length < 3;
}

Tests:

Vanilla Js
var result = data.map(square)
Ramda without relying on currying or composition
var result = R.map(square)(data)
Ramda with currying and composition
var result = R.pipe( R.map(square) )(data);
Lodash
var result = _.chain(data) .map(square)