Run results for: Array creation vs empty values

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User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 133

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Re create array (declared using "let")

3K/s

Empty array (declared using "const")

3K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Re create array (declared using "let")	2,990 Ops/sec
Empty array (declared using "const")	2,879 Ops/sec

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Script Preparation code:

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async function globalMeasureThatScriptPrepareFunction() {
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}

function isPrime(num) {
    for (let i = 2, s = Math.sqrt(num); i <= s; i++) {
        if (num % i === 0) {
            return false;
        }
    }
    return num > 1;
}

Tests:

Re create array (declared using "let")
const size = 10000; let primeNumbers = []; for (var i = 0; i < size; i++) { if (isPrime(i)) { primeNumbers.push(i); } if (primeNumbers.length > 10) { primeNumbers = []; } }
Empty array (declared using "const")
const size = 10000; const primeNumbers = []; for (var i = 0; i < size; i++) { if (isPrime(i)) { primeNumbers.push(i); } if (primeNumbers.length > 10) { primeNumbers.splice(0, primeNumbers.length); } }