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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 121

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

shift

12.7M/s

pop

12.2M/s

.splice(0)

9.4M/s

reassignment

8.8M/s

length

7.2M/s

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Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: