Run results for: Array.splice vs Array.filter

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_5_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/131.0.6778.154 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Chrome Mobile iOS 131

Operating system: iOS 16.5.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Splice It

19.2M/s

filter It

12.2M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ Splice It	19,238,242 Ops/sec
filter It	12,204,329 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script>
  const array = ["first","second","third","asdawd","cxzcas","ljjjln","dfh93fsad9","asdfeh5","dsag442","gdsgds","fdsfrhdgr"];
</script>

Script Preparation code:

function spliceIt(array, elementIdx){
  array.splice(elementIdx, 1);
}

function filterIt(array, elementIdx){
  array = array.filter((el, idx) => idx !== elementIdx);
}

Tests:

Splice It
spliceIt(array, 5);
filter It
filterIt(array, 5);

Run results for: Array.splice vs Array.filter

Test a speed difference between these 2 approaches

Splice It

filter It