Run results for: clearing array via pop() vs shift() vs .length = 0 vs = [] (200k)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 132

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

shift

94.4M/s

pop

93.7M/s

.splice(0)

33.6M/s

length

24.7M/s

reassignment

8.0M/s

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Script Preparation code:

var array = [];

for(var i = 0; i < 200000; i++){array.push(Math.random());}

Tests: