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slice VS splice VS shift: who is the fastest to keep constant size
100k list splice and shift win, they mutate list slice loose, it creates a copy of list 7.5x slower
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<iframe src="https://measurethat.net/Embed?id=502619" width="100%" height="500px"></iframe>
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_6_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.6 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1
Browser:
Mobile Safari 16
Operating system:
iOS 16.6.1
Device Platform:
Mobile
Date tested:
2 years ago
Benchmark engine:
Benchmark.js
shift
4.8M/s
splice
4.0M/s
slice
173/s
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Test name
Executions per second
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shift
4,765,158 Ops/sec
splice
3,978,986 Ops/sec
slice
173 Ops/sec
Script Preparation code:
var list = []; for (var i = 0; i < 1000 * 1000; i++) { list.push(i); }
Tests:
slice
list.push('slice'); list = list.slice(1);
splice
list.push('splice'); list.splice(0, 1);
shift
list.push('splice'); list.shift();