Run results for: empty an array in JavaScript - splice vs setting length

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 15_4 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.4 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 15

Operating system: iOS 15.4

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Set length to zero	37982.3 Ops/sec
Splice	32508.6 Ops/sec

Tests:

Set length to zero
var size = 10000; var arr2 = []; for (var i = 0; i < size; i++){ arr2.push(i); } arr2.length = 0;
Splice
var size = 10000; var arr3 = []; for (var i = 0; i < size; i++){ arr3.push(i); } arr3.splice(0);