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Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:123.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/123.0

Browser: Firefox 123

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Closure polyfill

67K/s

ES6 generator

46K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Closure polyfill	66,929 Ops/sec
ES6 generator	46,133 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

function* createGenerator() {
  var i;
  for (i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
    yield i;
  }
}

function createClosure() {
  var i = 0;
  return {
    next() {
      var result;
      if (i < 100) {
        result = {
          value: i,
          done: false
        };
      } else {
        result = {
          value: undefined,
          done: true
        };
      }
      i++;
      return result;
    }
  };
}

Tests:

ES6 generator
var gen = createGenerator(), result; while (!(result = gen.next()).done) { window.result = result.value; }
Closure polyfill
var gen = createClosure(), result; while (!(result = gen.next()).done) { window.result = result.value; }