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Slice vs Splice vs Shift
Compares the speed for removing 2 items from the beginning of an array
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 137
Operating system:
Mac OS X 10.15.7
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
one year ago
array.shift()
61.7M/s
array.splice()
53.1M/s
array.slice()
11.0M/s
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Test name
Executions per second
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array.shift()
61,728,892 Ops/sec
array.splice()
53,138,356 Ops/sec
array.slice()
11,044,499 Ops/sec
Script Preparation code:
var array = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] var itemsToRemove = 2
Tests:
array.slice()
array = array.slice(2)
array.splice()
array.splice(0, itemsToRemove)
array.shift()
for (let i = 0 ; i < itemsToRemove ; i++) array.shift()