Run results for: for loop vs. .map

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:125.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/125.0

Browser: Firefox 125

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

for loop

13.6M/s

.map

11.5M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ for loop	13,550,408 Ops/sec
.map	11,497,514 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

// Create sample data
var array = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0];

var manipulateFn = num => {
	return num * 2 * 3;
}

Tests:

.map
var newArray = array.map( i => manipulateFn(i));
for loop
var newArray = []; for (let i=0; i<array.length; i++) { newArray.push(manipulateFn(array[i])); }