Run results for: slice VS splice VS shift: who is the fastest to keep constant size

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 14_4 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/91.0.4472.80 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Chrome Mobile iOS 91

Operating system: iOS 14.4

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
slice	155.2 Ops/sec
splice	2150364.0 Ops/sec
shift	3094150.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests:

slice
list.push('slice'); list = list.slice(1);
splice
list.push('splice'); list.splice(0, 1);
shift
list.push('splice'); list.shift();

Run results for: slice VS splice VS shift: who is the fastest to keep constant size

100k list splice and shift win, they mutate list slice loose, it creates a copy of list 7.5x slower

slice

splice

shift