Run results for: Lodash maxBy vs reduce

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 125

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

reduce

2K/s

_.maxBy

997/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ reduce	1,533 Ops/sec
_.maxBy	997 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:


<script src='https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.5/lodash.min.js'></script>

Script Preparation code:

function getRandomInt(max) {
  return Math.floor(Math.random() * Math.floor(max));
}

var arr = [];
for(var i = 0; i < 100000; i++){
  arr.push({value:getRandomInt(100)});
}

Tests:

_.maxBy
_.maxBy(arr,"value");
reduce
arr.reduce((prev, next) => next.value > prev.value ? next : prev);