Run results for: Filter Boolean vs. Custom Function

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:129.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/129.0

Browser: Firefox 129

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

filter function

7K/s

filter(Boolean)

6K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ filter function	7,005 Ops/sec
filter(Boolean)	6,236 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var arr = Array.from({length: 10000}, () => Math.random() > 0.5 ? null : "foo");

Tests:

filter(Boolean)
const numTruthy = arr.filter(Boolean).length; console.log(numTruthy);
filter function
const numTruthy = arr.filter(x => !!x).length; console.log(numTruthy);