Run results for: Map() delete while iterating vs clear

When iterating over a Map and clearing after iteration is required, is it faster to remove items at each iteration step or is it faster to iterate and then clear() the entire Map afterwards?

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Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:149.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/149.0

Browser: Firefox 149

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 months ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Iterate + delete

25.6M/s

Iterate + clear

21.6M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ Iterate + delete	25,586,444 Ops/sec
Iterate + clear	21,628,164 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var dummy = 0;
var map = new Map(new Array(100).fill(null).map((_, i) => [
  function(incrementBy) {
  	dummy += incrementBy;
  },
  { incrementBy: i }
]));

Tests:

Iterate + clear
for (const [fn, obj] of map) { fn(obj.incrementBy); } map.clear();
Iterate + delete
for (const [fn, obj] of map) { fn(obj.incrementBy); map.delete(fn); }