@rmurphey-foo-foo-foo

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Revision 27 of this test case created by Alan Smithee

Info

Testing performance of different implementations for @rmurpheys challenge for creating and array of tripled string values.

http://gist.github.com/576723

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Preparation code

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
  // 5: given the following array, create an array that contains the contents of
  // each array item repeated three times, with a space between each item. so,
  // for example, if an array item is 'foo' then the new array should contain an
  // array item 'foo foo foo'. (you can assume the library of your choice is
  // available)
  var myArray = ['foo', 'bar', 'baz', 'bat', 'batty', 'buzzy', 'booz'];
</script>

Preparation code output

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for loop
 
var loopy = [];
for (var i = 0, j = myArray.length; i < j; i++) {
 loopy.push([myArray[i], myArray[i], myArray[i]].join(' '));
}
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ES5 - forEach
 
var es5 = [];

function triple(item) {
 es5.push([item, item, item].join(' '));
}
myArray.forEach(triple);
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ES5 - map
 
function triple(item) {
 return [item, item, item].join(' ');
}
var es5 = myArray.map(triple);
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jQuery.each
 
var results = [];
$.each(myArray, function(index, item) {
 results.push([item, item, item].join(' '));
});
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for loop, regexp concat
 
var results = [];
var re = /(.*)/;
for (var i = 0, j = myArray.length; i < j; i++) {
 results.push(myArray[i].replace(re, "$1 $1 $1"));
}
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reverse while (with concat)
 
var i = myArray.length,
    result = new Array(i);

while (i--) {
 var item = myArray[i];
 result[i] = item + " " + item + " " + item;
}
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reverse while (with join)
 
var i = myArray.length,
    result = new Array(i);

while (i--) {
 var item = myArray[i];
 result[i] = [item, item, item].join(" ");
}
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fast for
 
var l = myArray.length,
    result = new Array(l);
for (var i = 0; i < l; i++) {
 var item = myArray[i];
 result[i] = item + " " + item + " " + item;
}
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Manual
 
var result = ['foo foo foo', 'bar bar bar', 'baz baz baz', 'bat bat bat', 'batty batty batty', 'buzzy buzzy buzzy', 'booz booz booz'];
 pending…
non-robust join-replace-split
 
var result = myArray.join('|').replace(/([^|]+)/g, '$1 $1 $1').split('|');
 pending…

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