Run results for: lodash.head() vs [0] updated with optional chaining

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 (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
[0] with optional chaining null check
226.0M/s
Not empty [0]
217.0M/s
Empty [0]
215.2M/s
[0] with check
193.0M/s
[0] with null check
173.7M/s
Empty lodash.head()
118.2M/s
Not empty lodash.head()
115.2M/s
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Test name Executions per second
✓ [0] with optional chaining null check 226,043,392 Ops/sec
Not empty [0] 216,992,864 Ops/sec
Empty [0] 215,156,256 Ops/sec
[0] with check 192,984,160 Ops/sec
[0] with null check 173,685,696 Ops/sec
Empty lodash.head() 118,182,208 Ops/sec
Not empty lodash.head() 115,241,128 Ops/sec
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