[ARROW-11347] [JS] Consider Objects instead of Maps

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Invalid
• Fix Version/s: 7.0.0
• Component/s: JavaScript
• Labels: performance
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/27243
• Assignee: Dominik Moritz
• Reporter: Dominik Moritz
• Created: 22/Jan/21 09:45
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:19
• Resolved: 16/Jan/22 17:25

Description

A quick experiment (https://observablehq.com/@domoritz/performance-of-maps-vs-objects) seems to show that object accesses are a lot faster than map accesses. Would it make sense to switch to objects in the row API to improve performance?

Issue Links

• relates to: ARROW-11351 [JavaScript] Reconsider proxy objects instead of defineProperty