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Monday, May 24, 2010

Comparative Performance of Underscore.js in Chrome and IE

I came across the very handy-looking Undersore.js today, and clicked on the test & benchmark link. I first ran the test in Chrome.  The results below show number of operations per second.  Looks like each, map, keys, values, and range are pretty inexpensive operations, whereas uniq and intersect should be used sparingly.  All makes sense. 

Then out of curiosity, I ran the same tests in IE and Firefox.  The exact numbers are not significant as the results vary by 10-20% between subsequent runs in the same browser, but the range is pretty illustrative.  And yes, I know IE9 is harder, better, faster, stronger, so this is not a fair fight.  I can’t wait for IE9 to replace every previous IE version…

  Ops/sec

(higher is

better)
Test Chrome 6 IE 8 Firefox 3.6

_.each()

20213

510

3249

_(list).each()

13570

493

3161

jQuery.each()

3637

209

910

_.map()

18581

303

5488

jQuery.map()

7084

686

8519

_.pluck()

10852

282

4785

_.uniq()

127

1

33

_.uniq() (sorted)

308

210

84

_.sortBy()

1641

45

359

_.isEqual()

4962

869

1826

_.keys()

22675

1142

4295

_.values()

24551

321

5435

_.intersect()

83

1

20

_.range()

33345

1223

5262

Again, why I use Chrome as my default browser.

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