Run results for: JavaScript Array Copy Test 2

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 104

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
Array.concat	3767114.0 Ops/sec
Array.slice	3943375.8 Ops/sec
For loop	118533.2 Ops/sec
For loop with declared length	164761.0 Ops/sec
While loop	183800.5 Ops/sec
Spread operator	3918885.8 Ops/sec
Slice with begin argument	4145791.0 Ops/sec
Slice with begin and end argument	2504865.8 Ops/sec
Object Assign	124948.1 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var arrayToCopy = [ "hello", "hello", "hello", "hello", "hello", "hello", "hello", "hello", "hello", "hello", "hello", "hello", "hello", "hello", "hello", "hello", "hello", "hello", "hello", "hello", "hello", "hello", "hello", "hello", "hello", "hello", "hello", "hello" ];
var shallowCopy = [];

Tests:

Array.concat
shallowCopy = arrayToCopy.concat();
Array.slice
shallowCopy = arrayToCopy.slice();
For loop
for (let i = 0; i < arrayToCopy.length; ++i) { shallowCopy.push(arrayToCopy[i]); }
For loop with declared length
var arrayLength = arrayToCopy.length; for (let i = 0; i < arrayLength; ++i) { shallowCopy.push(arrayToCopy[i]); }
While loop
let i = arrayToCopy.length - 1; while (i--) { shallowCopy.push(arrayToCopy[i]); }
Spread operator
shallowCopy = [...arrayToCopy];
Slice with begin argument
shallowCopy = arrayToCopy.slice(0);
Slice with begin and end argument
shallowCopy = arrayToCopy.slice(0, arrayToCopy.length);
Object Assign
shallowCopy = Object.assign([], arrayToCopy);

Run results for: JavaScript Array Copy Test 2

Testing the results for the fastest approach of shallow copying an array in JavaScript (concat, slice, for loop, and while loop).

Array.concat

Array.slice

For loop

For loop with declared length

While loop

Spread operator

Slice with begin argument

Slice with begin and end argument

Object Assign