Run results for: Array.find vs. Map.get with very little items

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 118

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Map.get, 1 000 000 elements

2.4M/s

Map.get, 10 000 elements

2.3M/s

Array.find, 10 000 elements

2.2M/s

Array.find, 1 000 000 elements

2.2M/s

Array to Map + Map.get, 1 lookup

1.4M/s

Array to Map + Map.get, 10 lookups

271K/s

Array.find, 10 lookups

213K/s

Array to Map + Map.get, 100 lookups

32K/s

Array.find, 100 lookups

21K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Map.get, 1 000 000 elements	2,380,984 Ops/sec
Map.get, 10 000 elements	2,348,639 Ops/sec
Array.find, 10 000 elements	2,186,671 Ops/sec
Array.find, 1 000 000 elements	2,156,072 Ops/sec
Array to Map + Map.get, 1 lookup	1,373,233 Ops/sec
Array to Map + Map.get, 10 lookups	270,687 Ops/sec
Array.find, 10 lookups	213,171 Ops/sec
Array to Map + Map.get, 100 lookups	31,587 Ops/sec
Array.find, 100 lookups	20,601 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

function getRandomElement(id) {
  return {
    id,
    a: Math.random(),
    b: Math.random(),
    c: Math.random(),
  }
}

function getArray(length) {
  const result = [];
  for (let i = 0; i < length; i++) {
    result.push(getRandomElement(i))
  }
  
  return result;
}

function arrayToMap(array) {
  return new Map(array.map(el => [el.id, el]));
}

function getRandomInt(max) {
  return Math.floor(Math.random() * max);
}

array_small = getArray(2);
array_large = getArray(5);

map_small = arrayToMap(array_small);
map_large = arrayToMap(array_large);

Tests:

Array.find, 10 000 elements
const target = getRandomInt(3); array_small.find(el => el.id === target);
Map.get, 10 000 elements
const target = getRandomInt(3); map_small.get(target);
Array.find, 1 000 000 elements
const target = getRandomInt(6); array_large.find(el => el.id === target);
Map.get, 1 000 000 elements
const target = getRandomInt(6); map_large.get(target)
Array to Map + Map.get, 1 lookup
const map = arrayToMap(array_small); const target = getRandomInt(3); map.get(target);
Array to Map + Map.get, 10 lookups
const map = arrayToMap(array_small); for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) { const target = getRandomInt(3); map.get(target); }
Array to Map + Map.get, 100 lookups
const map = arrayToMap(array_small); for (let i = 0; i < 100; i++) { const target = getRandomInt(3); map.get(target); }
Array.find, 10 lookups
for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) { const target = getRandomInt(3); array_small.find(el => el.id === target) }
Array.find, 100 lookups
for (let i = 0; i < 100; i++) { const target = getRandomInt(3); array_small.find(el => el.id === target) }