Run results for: Lodash _.first vs array[0]

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

31.2M/s

_.first

10.9M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ JS	31,153,250 Ops/sec
_.first	10,857,977 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.11/lodash.core.js"></script>

Script Preparation code:

var names = ["first", "middle", "last", "suffix"];

Tests: