Run results for: for loop vs. .map

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.3 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 18

Operating system: iOS 18.3.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

.map

33.4M/s

for loop

29.1M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ .map	33,385,486 Ops/sec
for loop	29,099,614 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

// Create sample data
var array = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0];

var manipulateFn = num => {
	return num * 2 * 3;
}

Tests:

.map
var newArray = array.map( i => manipulateFn(i));
for loop
var newArray = []; for (let i=0; i<array.length; i++) { newArray.push(manipulateFn(array[i])); }