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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.4.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 17

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

33.3M/s

_.first

12.5M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ JS	33,287,054 Ops/sec
_.first	12,450,137 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: