Toggle navigation
MeasureThat
.net
Create a benchmark
Tools
Feedback
FAQ
Register
Log In
Run results for:
Slice vs Splice vs Shift
Compares the speed for removing 2 items from the beginning of an array
Go to the benchmark
Embed
Embed Benchmark Result
<iframe src="https://measurethat.net/Embed?id=582861" width="100%" height="500px"></iframe>
Run details:
User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.2 Safari/605.1.15
Browser:
Safari 18
Operating system:
Mac OS X 10.15.7
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
one year ago
array.splice()
72.8M/s
array.shift()
57.7M/s
array.slice()
47.1M/s
View exact numbers
Test name
Executions per second
✓
array.splice()
72,758,280 Ops/sec
array.shift()
57,710,248 Ops/sec
array.slice()
47,090,556 Ops/sec
Script Preparation code:
var array = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] var itemsToRemove = 2
Tests:
array.slice()
array = array.slice(2)
array.splice()
array.splice(0, itemsToRemove)
array.shift()
for (let i = 0 ; i < itemsToRemove ; i++) array.shift()