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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/100.0.4896.60 Safari/537.36 Edg/100.0.1185.29

Browser: Chrome 100

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
slice	422.9 Ops/sec
splice	6535.3 Ops/sec
shift	2446.6 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