Run results for: clearing array via pop() vs shift() vs .length = 0 vs = []

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 121

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

shift

28.2M/s

pop

27.9M/s

.splice(0)

22.6M/s

reassignment

20.2M/s

length

18.9M/s

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Script Preparation code:

var array = [];

for(var i = 0; i < 100000; i++){array.push(Math.random());}

Tests: