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
Test name Executions per second
Not empty lodash.head() 113354192.0 Ops/sec
Not empty [0] 210371984.0 Ops/sec
Empty lodash.head() 111274864.0 Ops/sec
Empty [0] 208974384.0 Ops/sec
[0] with check 182287824.0 Ops/sec
[0] with null check 161124384.0 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