Run results for: Array item swapping, destructuring vs temp variable vs xor

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0

Browser: Firefox 128

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Length 10 temp swap

16.1M/s

Length 10 xor swap

15.1M/s

Length 10 destructuring swap

14.2M/s

Length 100 temp swap

8.8M/s

Length 100 xor swap

8.8M/s

Length 100 destructuring swap

3.3M/s

Length 1000 destructuring swap

557K/s

Length 1000 temp swap

550K/s

Length 1000 xor swap

547K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Length 10 temp swap	16,143,024 Ops/sec
Length 10 xor swap	15,054,834 Ops/sec
Length 10 destructuring swap	14,185,961 Ops/sec
Length 100 temp swap	8,796,710 Ops/sec
Length 100 xor swap	8,785,480 Ops/sec
Length 100 destructuring swap	3,342,906 Ops/sec
Length 1000 destructuring swap	557,294 Ops/sec
Length 1000 temp swap	550,043 Ops/sec
Length 1000 xor swap	547,071 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

function tempSwap(array) {
    const length = array.length;
    const swap1 = Math.floor(Math.random() * length);
    const swap2 = Math.floor(Math.random() * length);
    const temp = array[swap1];

    array[swap1] = array[swap2];
    array[swap2] = array[temp];
}

function destructuringSwap(array) {
    const length = array.length;
    const swap1 = Math.floor(Math.random() * length);
    const swap2 = Math.floor(Math.random() * length);

    return [
        array[swap1],
        array[swap2]
    ] = [
        array[swap2],
        array[swap1]
    ];
}

function xorSwap(array) {
const length = array.length;
    const swap1 = Math.floor(Math.random() * length);
    const swap2 = Math.floor(Math.random() * length);
    array[swap1] ^= array[swap2];
    array[swap2] ^= array[swap1];
    array[swap1] ^= array[swap2];
}

Tests:

Length 10 temp swap
tempSwap(new Array(10));
Length 10 destructuring swap
destructuringSwap(new Array(10));
Length 100 temp swap
tempSwap(new Array(100));
Length 100 destructuring swap
destructuringSwap(new Array(100));
Length 1000 temp swap
tempSwap(new Array(1000));
Length 1000 destructuring swap
destructuringSwap(new Array(1000));
Length 10 xor swap
xorSwap(new Array(10));
Length 100 xor swap
xorSwap(new Array(100));
Length 1000 xor swap
xorSwap(new Array(1000));