Run results for: unshift vs sort

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

swapping

8K/s

unshift

19/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ swapping	8,329 Ops/sec
unshift	19 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var arr = [...Array(10000)].map((_,i) => i)

Tests:

unshift
arr.forEach((v,i) => { console.log(v,i); arr.unshift(arr.splice(i,1).shift()) })
swapping
arr.sort((a,b) => (a === b) ? 0 : (a < b) ? 1 : -1)