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clearing array via pop() vs shift() vs .length = 0 vs = []
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 133
Operating system:
Linux
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
one year ago
shift
40.6M/s
pop
40.5M/s
length
10.8M/s
reassignment
3.1M/s
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Test name
Executions per second
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shift
40,553,468 Ops/sec
pop
40,496,236 Ops/sec
length
10,763,271 Ops/sec
reassignment
3,139,865 Ops/sec
Script Preparation code:
var array = []; for(var i = 0; i < 100000; i++){array.push(Math.random());}
Tests:
pop
while (array.length > 0) { array.pop(); }
shift
while (array.length > 0) { array.shift(); }
length
array.length = 0
reassignment
array = []