Benchmark: last array element

Script Preparation code:

var list = [];
for (var i = 0; i < 1000 * 1000; i++) {
  list.push(i);
}

Tests:

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
list.slice(-1)[0]
list[list.length -1]

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 3 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.97 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 83 on Mac OS X 10.15.1

Test name	Executions per second
list.slice(-1)[0]	9967568.0 Ops/sec
list[list.length -1]	7201420.0 Ops/sec

last array element (version: 0)