Run results for: array = [] vs array.length = 0

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 126

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

array = []

6.7M/s

array length = 0

6.1M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ array = []	6,689,264 Ops/sec
array length = 0	6,145,276 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var arr = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z'];

Tests: