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Run results for: array concat vs push vs spread

testing speed of concatenating many arrays

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Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.121 Safari/537.36
Chrome 85
Mac OS X 10.12.6
Desktop
4 years ago
Test name Executions per second
push 288174.9 Ops/sec
concat 64118.8 Ops/sec
concat spread 405782.6 Ops/sec
Script Preparation code:
​x
 
const arrayCount = 500;
const arraySize = 4;
​
var arrays = [];
for(let i = 0; i < arrayCount; i++) {
  arrays.push(Array.from({length: arraySize}, () => Math.floor(Math.random() * 40)));
}
Tests:

  • push

     
    let result = [];
    arrays.forEach(curr => {result.push(...curr)});

  • concat

     
    let result = [];
    arrays.forEach(curr => {result = result.concat(curr)});

  • concat spread

     
    let result = [];
    result = result.concat(...arrays);

  • push apply

     
    let result = [];
    arrays.forEach(curr => {Array.prototype.push.apply(result, curr);});

  • concat apply

     
    let result = [];
    result = Array.prototype.concat.apply(result, arrays);