Run results for: Remove an item from array; indexOf + splice vs filter

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 122

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

filter

25.8M/s

indexOf + splice

9.1M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ filter	25,817,614 Ops/sec
indexOf + splice	9,114,159 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var arr = [];
for (var i = 0; i < 10000; i++) {
  arr.push(Math.floor(Math.random() * 1000));
}
var itemToRemove = arr[Math.floor(Math.random() * 10000)]

Tests:

indexOf + splice
var result = arr.splice(arr.indexOf(itemToRemove), 1)
filter
var result = arr.filter(el => el !== itemToRemove)