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Run results for: empty an array in JavaScript - splice vs setting length 2

Based on question on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1232040/how-do-i-empty-an-array-in-javascript

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Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/101.0.4951.54 Safari/537.36
Chrome 101
Windows
Desktop
2 years ago
Test name Executions per second
Set length to zero 183547.5 Ops/sec
Splice 174766.4 Ops/sec
Set Array empty 174820.6 Ops/sec
Tests:

  • Set length to zero

    ​x
     
    var size = 1000;
    var arr2 = [];
    for (var i = 0; i < size; i++){
      arr2.push(i);
    }
    ​
    arr2.length = 0;

  • Splice

     
    var size = 1000;
    var arr3 = [];
    for (var i = 0; i < size; i++){
      arr3.push(i);
    }
    ​
    arr3.splice(0);

  • Set Array empty

     
    var size = 1000;
    var arr3 = [];
    for (var i = 0; i < size; i++){
      arr3.push(i);
    }
    ​
    arr3 = [];