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]
210.4M/s
Empty [0]
209.0M/s
[0] with check
182.3M/s
[0] with null check
161.1M/s
Not empty lodash.head()
113.4M/s
Empty lodash.head()
111.3M/s
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Test name Executions per second
✓ Not empty [0] 210,371,984 Ops/sec
Empty [0] 208,974,384 Ops/sec
[0] with check 182,287,824 Ops/sec
[0] with null check 161,124,384 Ops/sec
Not empty lodash.head() 113,354,192 Ops/sec
Empty lodash.head() 111,274,864 Ops/sec
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