Run results for: Array.prototype.concat vs spread operator (large, small diff

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 128

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

spread operator (small)

6.2M/s

Array.prototype.concat small

3.7M/s

Array.prototype.concat (large)

378K/s

spread operator (large)

73K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ spread operator (small)	6,207,354 Ops/sec
Array.prototype.concat small	3,713,006 Ops/sec
Array.prototype.concat (large)	378,037 Ops/sec
spread operator (large)	73,232 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

// preparation
var a = Array.from({length: 1000}).map((_, i)=>`${i}`);
var b = Array.from({length: 2000}).map((_, i)=>`${i}`);
var aSmall = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'];
var bSmall = ['e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i'];

Tests:

Array.prototype.concat small
aSmall.concat(bSmall);
spread operator (small)
[...aSmall, ...bSmall]
Array.prototype.concat (large)
a.concat(b);
spread operator (large)
[...a, ...b]

Run results for: Array.prototype.concat vs spread operator (large, small diff

Compare the new ES6 spread operator with the traditional concat() method

Array.prototype.concat small

spread operator (small)

Array.prototype.concat (large)

spread operator (large)