Run results for: array.pop vs array[index]

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

array[index]

21/s

array.pop()

16/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ array[index]	21 Ops/sec
array.pop()	16 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

window.bigArray = (new Array(10000)).fill(null).map((el, index) => index);

Tests:

array[index]
for(let index = 0; index < 10000; index ++) { const current = bigArray[index]; console.log(current); }
array.pop()
for(let index = 0; index < 10000; index ++) { const current = bigArray.pop(); console.log(current); }