Run results for: Direct Array vs Typed Array vs Array read performances

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:145.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/145.0

Browser: Firefox 145

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 10 months ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

new TypedArray

681/s

Direct Array

368/s

new Array

366/s

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Tests:

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