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Unshift vs concat
We can add elements to the beginning of array using both, let's find out which is faster. Unshift also mutates the array. Concat does not, so that would be preferable.
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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
Test name
Executions per second
Unshift
29506.2 Ops/sec
Concat
1023.8 Ops/sec
Script Preparation code:
var arr = [1, 3, 5, 11, 13];
Tests:
Unshift
arr.unshift(4,5)
Concat
[4,5].concat(arr);