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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/136.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 136

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

.push() + reverse()

1.3M/s

.unshift()

514K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ .push() + reverse()	1,335,195 Ops/sec
.unshift()	513,617 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();