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Run results for: lodash.head() vs [0]

Is head() needed only to check length !== 0 ? P.s. Empty testcase for [0] is useless because it won't crash on trying to get nonexistent element

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Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.102 Safari/537.36
Chrome 85
Mac OS X 10.15.6
Desktop
4 years ago
Test name Executions per second
Not empty lodash.head() 5068876.0 Ops/sec
Not empty [0] 15617421.0 Ops/sec
Empty lodash.head() 5038066.0 Ops/sec
Empty [0] 15691262.0 Ops/sec
[0] with check 5236057.0 Ops/sec
[0] with null check 3900754.5 Ops/sec
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Tests:

  • Not empty lodash.head()

  • Not empty [0]

  • Empty lodash.head()

  • Empty [0]

  • [0] with check

  • [0] with null check

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