Run results for: Sort and Shift vs Loop and Splice

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 127

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
Sort and Shift	11077482.0 Ops/sec
Loop and Splice	10177517.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var x = [];
for (let i = 0; i < 1000; ++i) {
    x.push({
        v: Math.floor(Math.random() * 1000)
    });
}

Tests:

Sort and Shift
x.sort((a, b) => { return a.v - b.v }); let y = x.shift();
Loop and Splice
let b = 0; for (const a in x) { if (x[a].v < x[b].v) { b = a; } } let y = x.splice(b, 1);