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slice VS splice VS shift: who is the fastest to keep constant size
100k list splice and shift win, they mutate list slice loose, it creates a copy of list 7.5x slower
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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
Benchmark engine:
Benchmark.js
splice
12K/s
shift
2K/s
slice
655/s
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Test name
Executions per second
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splice
11,792 Ops/sec
shift
1,807 Ops/sec
slice
655 Ops/sec
Script Preparation code:
var list = []; for (var i = 0; i < 1000 * 1000; i++) { list.push(i); }
Tests:
slice
list.push('slice'); list = list.slice(1);
splice
list.push('splice'); list.splice(0, 1);
shift
list.push('splice'); list.shift();