Run results for: Direct Array vs Typed Array vs Array

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 135

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

new Array

271/s

new TypedArray

160/s

Direct Array

129/s

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Tests:

new TypedArray
let arr = new Float32Array(1000000); arr[0] = Math.random(); for (let i = 0; i < 1000000; i++) { arr[i] = arr[i - 1]; }
new Array
let arr = new Array(1000000); arr[0] = Math.random(); for (let i = 0; i < 1000000; i++) { arr[i] = arr[i - 1]; }
Direct Array
let arr = []; arr[0] = Math.random(); for (let i = 0; i < 1000000; i++) { arr[i] = arr[i - 1]; }