Run results for: set.add vs array.push vs map.set

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

set.add

32.1M/s

map.set overwrite

30.3M/s

conditional array.push

9.7M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ set.add	32,132,806 Ops/sec
map.set overwrite	30,264,806 Ops/sec
conditional array.push	9,743,205 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var array = [];
var set = new Set();
var map = new Map();

var existingItem1 = {};
var existingItem2 = {};
var existingItem3 = {};
var newItem1 = {};
var newItem2 = {};
var newItem3 = {};

for (let i = 0, item; i < 100; i++) {
  item = {index: i};
  array.push(item);
  set.add(item);
  map.set(item, 0);
}

array.push(existingItem1, existingItem2, existingItem3);
set.add(existingItem1); set.add(existingItem2); set.add(existingItem3);
map.set(existingItem1, 0); map.set(existingItem2, 0); map.set(existingItem3, 0);

Tests:

conditional array.push
if (!array.includes(existingItem1)) { array.push(existingItem1); } if (!array.includes(newItem1)) { array.push(newItem1); } if (!array.includes(existingItem2)) { array.push(existingItem2); } if (!array.includes(newItem2)) { array.push(newItem2); } if (!array.includes(existingItem3)) { array.push(existingItem3); } if (!array.includes(newItem3)) { array.push(newItem3); }
set.add
set.add(existingItem1); set.add(newItem1); set.add(existingItem2); set.add(newItem2); set.add(existingItem3); set.add(newItem3);
map.set overwrite
map.set(existingItem1, 0); map.set(newItem1, 0); map.set(existingItem2, 0); map.set(newItem2, 0); map.set(existingItem3, 0); map.set(newItem3, 0);