Run results for: Array vs Linked List vs Set

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/138.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 138

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Linked List

44K/s

Array

40K/s

Set

2K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Linked List	44,331 Ops/sec
Array	40,015 Ops/sec
Set	2,377 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

function createNode(data, next) {
  return {
    data: data,
    next
  };
}

class LinkedList {
  _head = null;

  unshift(data) {
    const node = createNode(data);

    if (this._head === null) {
      this._head = node;
    } else {
      node.next = this._head;
      this._head = node;
    }
  }

  shift() {
    const node = this._head;
    this._head = this._head.next;
    return node;
  }
}

Tests:

Linked List
const list = new LinkedList(); let x = 10000; while(x--) { list.unshift(x); }
Array
const array = []; let x = 10000; while(x--) { array.push(x); }
Set
const s = new Set(); let x = 10000; while(x--) { s.add(x); }

Run results for: Array vs Linked List vs Set

compare performance of Array vs Linked List.

Linked List

Array

Set