Run results for: Maping numeric vs f32 vs f64

compare the map speed of an array of random true/false values compared to an ArrayBuffer with a uInt8 view of 0 or 1. The results are that the typed array is much much faster. There are two possible reasons I can think of for this. 1) JavaScript boolean type size of 4Bytes where as an element of a uInt8 array is actually 1Byte. 2) The ArrayBuffer is allocating contiguous memory resulting in a better cache hit ratio.

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 18

Operating system: iOS 18.0

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Float64Array

1.5M/s

Float32Array

1.4M/s

numeric array

604K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Float64Array	1,491,014 Ops/sec
Float32Array	1,442,388 Ops/sec
numeric array	604,002 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

const size = 1024;

var buffer64 = new ArrayBuffer(size*8);
var buffer32 = new ArrayBuffer(size*4);
var f64View = new Float32Array(buffer64, 0, size);
var f32View = new Float32Array(buffer32, 0, size);

var numericArray = [];
for (let i=0; i<size; i++) {
  const someVal = Math.random();
  numericArray[i] = someVal;
  f64View[i] = someVal;
  f32View[i] = someVal;
}

Tests:

numeric array
const resultArray = numericArray.map(s => { return (s == 1); });
Float64Array
const resultArray = f64View.map(s => { return (s == 1); });
Float32Array
const resultArray = f32View.map(s => { return (s == 1); });