Run results for: map vs forEach/push (1000 elements)

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

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

forEach/push

27.9M/s

map

10.6M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ forEach/push	27,927,956 Ops/sec
map	10,619,007 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

window.arr = new Array({ length: 1000 }, (_, i) => `Option ${i + 1}`);

Tests:

map
const newArr = window.arr.map(element => ({ label: element, value: element })); newArr.unshift({ label: 'User', value: 'User' });
forEach/push
const newArr = []; newArr.push({ label: 'User', value: 'User' }) window.arr.forEach(element => { newArr.push({ label: element, value: element }) })