Run results for: Add item to array: push vs spread vs assign:

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 17

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Push item to an array

21K/s

Direct assign an item to an initialized array

10K/s

Append an item by spread

670/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Push item to an array	20,651 Ops/sec
Direct assign an item to an initialized array	9,657 Ops/sec
Append an item by spread	670 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

window.MAX_SIZE = 1000;

Tests:

Push item to an array
const items = []; for (let i = 0; i < MAX_SIZE; i++) { items.push(i); }
Append an item by spread
let items = []; for (let i = 0; i < MAX_SIZE; i++) { items = [...items, i]; }
Direct assign an item to an initialized array
const items = new Array(MAX_SIZE); for (let i = 0; i < MAX_SIZE; i++) { items[i] = i; }