Run results for: for loop vs. .map

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.6 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 18

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 10 months ago

for loop

48.3M/s

.map

46.6M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ for loop	48,323,608 Ops/sec
.map	46,595,752 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])); }