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Empty array: Splice vs Shift
Compares the speed for removing all items from the beginning of an array
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome Mobile 133
Operating system:
Android
Device Platform:
Mobile
Date tested:
one year ago
array.shift()
42.5M/s
array.splice()
17.2M/s
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array.shift()
42,508,740 Ops/sec
array.splice()
17,205,294 Ops/sec
Script Preparation code:
var array = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
Tests:
array.splice()
array.splice(0)
array.shift()
while (array.length > 0) array.shift();