for vs forEach (v84)

Revision 84 of this benchmark created on

Description

Is it faster to use the native forEach or just loop with for?

Inspired by Adrian Sutton's tests at: http://www.symphonious.net/2010/10/09/javascript-performance-for-vs-foreach/

This one adds random floating point numbers to see if the loop overhead is significant at all in the face of standard work.

Setup

var i = 0,
      value = 0,
      length = 100000,
      values = [],
      sum = 0,
      context = values;
    
    
    for (i = 0; i < length; i++) {
      values[i] = Math.random();
    }
    
    function add(val) {
      sum += val;
    }

Test runner

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forEach closure
values.forEach(function(val) {
  sum += val;
});
 
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while
i = 0
while(i < length){
  sum += values[i];
  i += 1;
}
 
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for ... in
for (i in values) {
  sum += values[i];
}
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forEach
values.forEach(add);
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for
for (i = 0; i < length; i += 1) {
  sum += values[i];
}
 
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