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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Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Chrome 131
Windows
Desktop
one year ago
Not empty [0]
212.4M/s
Empty [0]
210.4M/s
[0] with check
185.9M/s
[0] with null check
159.4M/s
Empty lodash.head()
114.9M/s
Not empty lodash.head()
113.2M/s
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Test name Executions per second
✓ Not empty [0] 212,425,024 Ops/sec
Empty [0] 210,429,248 Ops/sec
[0] with check 185,909,104 Ops/sec
[0] with null check 159,414,080 Ops/sec
Empty lodash.head() 114,944,928 Ops/sec
Not empty lodash.head() 113,190,120 Ops/sec
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