Run results for: Concat vs push(...) for large arrays (----)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Apply

11K/s

Spread

11K/s

Concat

7K/s

Control (for push)

370/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Apply	10,883 Ops/sec
Spread	10,573 Ops/sec
Concat	7,111 Ops/sec
Control (for push)	370 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

window.top.tests = {control:[], concat:[], spread:[], apply: []};
window.test = (new Array(20000)).fill(null).map((e, i) => ( {
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    "age": i,
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    "gender": "male",
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      "incididunt",
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      "anim",
      "sit"
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    "friends": [
      {
        "id": 0,
        "name": "Gutierrez Collins"
      },
      {
        "id": 1,
        "name": "Lisa Richardson"
      },
      {
        "id": 2,
        "name": "Wilson Kane"
      }
    ],
    "greeting": "Hello, Reid Holden! You have 4 unread messages.",
    "favoriteFruit": "strawberry"
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window.cutoff = 500000;

Tests:

Control (for push)
for (let element of window.test) window.top.tests.control.push(element); if (window.top.tests.control.length > window.cutoff) { window.top.tests.control = []; console.log('reset control'); }
Concat
window.top.tests.concat = window.top.tests.concat.concat(window.test); if (window.top.tests.concat.length > window.cutoff) { window.top.tests.concat = []; console.log('reset concat'); }
Spread
window.top.tests.spread.push(...window.test); if (window.top.tests.spread.length > window.cutoff) { window.top.tests.spread = []; console.log('reset spread'); }
Apply
window.top.tests.apply.push.apply(window.top.tests.apply, window.test); if (window.top.tests.apply.length > window.cutoff) { window.top.tests.apply = []; console.log('reset apply'); }

Run results for: Concat vs push(...) for large arrays (----)

Comparing the various ways to append to a large array

Control (for push)

Concat

Spread

Apply