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JavaScript Array Copy 3
Testing the results for the fastest approach of shallow copying an array in JavaScript (concat, slice, for loop, and while loop).
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/140.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 140
Operating system:
Mac OS X 10.15.7
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
10 months ago
Array.concat
8.0M/s
Array.slice
7.9M/s
For loop no push
617K/s
For loop no push, prefill
612K/s
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Executions per second
✓
Array.concat
7,962,596 Ops/sec
Array.slice
7,868,622 Ops/sec
For loop no push
617,042 Ops/sec
For loop no push, prefill
612,389 Ops/sec
Script Preparation code:
var arrayToCopy = new Array(1000).fill(5); var shallowCopy = [];
Tests:
Array.concat
shallowCopy = arrayToCopy.concat();
Array.slice
shallowCopy = arrayToCopy.slice();
For loop no push
var arrayLength = arrayToCopy.length; shallowCopy.length = arrayLength; for (let i = 0; i < arrayLength; ++i) { shallowCopy[i] = arrayToCopy[i]; }
For loop no push, prefill
var arrayLength = arrayToCopy.length; for (let i = 0; i < arrayLength; ++i) { shallowCopy[i] = arrayToCopy[i]; }