Run results for: empty an array in JavaScript - splice vs setting length

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:137.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/137.0

Browser: Firefox 137

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 23 hours ago

Test name	Executions per second
Set length to zero	31840.4 Ops/sec
Splice	33806.1 Ops/sec

Tests:

Set length to zero
var size = 10000; var arr2 = []; for (var i = 0; i < size; i++){ arr2.push(i); } arr2.length = 0;
Splice
var size = 10000; var arr3 = []; for (var i = 0; i < size; i++){ arr3.push(i); } arr3.splice(0);