Run results for: lodash.head() vs [0]

Is head() needed only to check length !== 0 ? P.s. Empty testcase for [0] is useless because it won't crash on trying to get nonexistent element

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Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:130.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/130.0
Firefox 130
Mac OS X 10.15
Desktop
one year ago
Test name Executions per second
Not empty lodash.head() 177950576.0 Ops/sec
Not empty [0] 567564288.0 Ops/sec
Empty lodash.head() 52391464.0 Ops/sec
Empty [0] 529426592.0 Ops/sec
[0] with check 378034624.0 Ops/sec
[0] with null check 148896048.0 Ops/sec
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Tests:

  • Not empty lodash.head()

  • Not empty [0]

  • Empty lodash.head()

  • Empty [0]

  • [0] with check

  • [0] with null check