Run results for: lodash.head() vs [0]

Is head() needed only to check length !== 0 ? P.s. Empty testcase for [0] is useless because it won't crash on trying to get nonexistent element

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Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Chrome 119
Mac OS X 10.15.7
Desktop
2 years ago
Test name Executions per second
Not empty lodash.head() 12395578.0 Ops/sec
Not empty [0] 36608524.0 Ops/sec
Empty lodash.head() 12419569.0 Ops/sec
Empty [0] 36828084.0 Ops/sec
[0] with check 13001754.0 Ops/sec
[0] with null check 9644609.0 Ops/sec
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Tests:

  • Not empty lodash.head()

  • Not empty [0]

  • Empty lodash.head()

  • Empty [0]

  • [0] with check

  • [0] with null check