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
Not empty [0]
567.6M/s
Empty [0]
529.4M/s
[0] with check
378.0M/s
Not empty lodash.head()
178.0M/s
[0] with null check
148.9M/s
Empty lodash.head()
52.4M/s
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Test name Executions per second
✓ Not empty [0] 567,564,288 Ops/sec
Empty [0] 529,426,592 Ops/sec
[0] with check 378,034,624 Ops/sec
Not empty lodash.head() 177,950,576 Ops/sec
[0] with null check 148,896,048 Ops/sec
Empty lodash.head() 52,391,464 Ops/sec
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