Run results for: .unshift() vs .push() + .reverse()

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.4 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 18

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

.push() + reverse()

4.7M/s

.unshift()

528K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ .push() + reverse()	4,679,067 Ops/sec
.unshift()	527,508 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

window.ELE_PER_CYCLE = 100;

Tests:

.unshift()
const reps = window.ELE_PER_CYCLE; const arr = []; for (let i = 0; i < reps; ++i) { arr.unshift(i); }
.push() + reverse()
const reps = window.ELE_PER_CYCLE; const arr = []; for (let i = 0; i < reps; ++i) { arr.push(i); } arr.reverse();