Run results for: unshift vs sort

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.159 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 92

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
unshift	9.3 Ops/sec
swapping	5987.7 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var arr = [...Array(10000)].map((_,i) => i)

Tests:

unshift
arr.forEach((v,i) => { console.log(v,i); arr.unshift(arr.splice(i,1).shift()) })
swapping
arr.sort((a,b) => (a === b) ? 0 : (a < b) ? 1 : -1)