Run results for: Remove by splice vs spliceIdx vs filter

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/95.0.4638.69 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 95

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Delete by Splice	895052.6 Ops/sec
Delete by Splice Index	916586.4 Ops/sec
Delete by Filter	938034.9 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script>
  var array = ["m1c6kzws0iubt8g0zlsug14i","xalskr21dm5ke5wczew154s4i","hvbfe3uq3pmoehpilh4zpvi","ffr2btp9rihf3qce770ttke29","ymwh11qu16qwqn5vaafxhia4i","1l7rj49636ddmk3cbszitchaor","bg1njla9dvdkdlw9mbz1l9pb9","201y3ambt118dt7j7bxc6ry66r","hsgzqv2ex2j9j8znv3uzbyb9","k8tuq5ucdx1whgkdcby44pldi","2sjycnx525scxzfxfmwl7q4cxr"];
</script>

Script Preparation code:

/* these functions assume that only one element matches, so they do not loop! */

function deleteBySplice (array, element) {
  array.splice( array.indexOf( element ), 1 );
}

function deleteBySpliceIdx (array, element) {
  array.splice( element, 1 );
}

function deleteByFilter (array, element) {
  array = array.filter( el => el !== element );
}

Tests:

Delete by Splice
deleteBySplice( array, "2sjycnx525scxzfxfmwl7q4cxr" ); deleteBySplice( array, "m1c6kzws0iubt8g0zlsug14i" ); deleteBySplice( array, "1l7rj49636ddmk3cbszitchaor" );
Delete by Splice Index
deleteBySpliceIdx( array, 10 ); deleteBySpliceIdx( array, 0 ); deleteBySpliceIdx( array, 5 );
Delete by Filter
deleteByFilter( array, "2sjycnx525scxzfxfmwl7q4cxr" ); deleteByFilter( array, "m1c6kzws0iubt8g0zlsug14i" ); deleteByFilter( array, "1l7rj49636ddmk3cbszitchaor" );

Run results for: Remove by splice vs spliceIdx vs filter

Deletion of an element from an array.

Delete by Splice

Delete by Splice Index

Delete by Filter