Run results for: Array item swapping, destructuring vs temp variable

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:93.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/93.0

Browser: Firefox 93

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Length 10 temp swap	2636948.5 Ops/sec
Length 10 destructuring swap	1953943.2 Ops/sec
Length 100 temp swap	915532.4 Ops/sec
Length 100 destructuring swap	814120.0 Ops/sec
Length 1000 temp swap	76434.1 Ops/sec
Length 1000 destructuring swap	72217.5 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

function tempSwap(array) {
    const length = array.length;
    const swap1 = Math.floor(Math.random() * length);
    const swap2 = Math.floor(Math.random() * length);
    const temp = array[swap1];

    array[swap1] = array[swap2];
    array[swap2] = array[temp];
}

function destructuringSwap(array) {
    const length = array.length;
    const swap1 = Math.floor(Math.random() * length);
    const swap2 = Math.floor(Math.random() * length);

    return [
        array[swap1],
        array[swap2]
    ] = [
        array[swap2],
        array[swap1]
    ];
}

Tests:

Length 10 temp swap
tempSwap(new Array(10));
Length 10 destructuring swap
destructuringSwap(new Array(10));
Length 100 temp swap
tempSwap(new Array(100));
Length 100 destructuring swap
destructuringSwap(new Array(100));
Length 1000 temp swap
tempSwap(new Array(1000));
Length 1000 destructuring swap
destructuringSwap(new Array(1000));

Run results for: Array item swapping, destructuring vs temp variable

Array destructuring vs temp variable use in array item swapping

Length 10 temp swap

Length 10 destructuring swap

Length 100 temp swap

Length 100 destructuring swap

Length 1000 temp swap

Length 1000 destructuring swap