Benchmark: empty an array in JavaScript - splice vs setting length. 444

Tests:

Set length to zero
var size = 10000; var arr2 = []; for (var i = 0; i < size; i++){ arr2.push(i); } arr2.length = 64;
Splice
var size = 10000; var arr3 = []; for (var i = 0; i < size; i++){ arr3.push(i); } arr3.splice(64);

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Set length to zero
Splice

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: one year ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/110.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 110 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

Test name	Executions per second
Set length to zero	25226.4 Ops/sec
Splice	18901.0 Ops/sec

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