Run results for: Array item swapping, destructuring vs temp variable

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/103.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 103

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Length 10 temp swap	1611487.6 Ops/sec
Length 10 destructuring swap	1626837.2 Ops/sec
Length 100 temp swap	1503865.6 Ops/sec
Length 100 destructuring swap	1527130.1 Ops/sec
Length 1000 temp swap	1011823.9 Ops/sec
Length 1000 destructuring swap	1031773.1 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

function tempSwap(array) {
    const length = array.length;
    const swap1 = Math.floor(Math.random() * length);
    const swap2 = Math.floor(Math.random() * length);
    const temp = array[swap1];

    array[swap1] = array[swap2];
    array[swap2] = array[temp];
}

function destructuringSwap(array) {
    const length = array.length;
    const swap1 = Math.floor(Math.random() * length);
    const swap2 = Math.floor(Math.random() * length);

    return [
        array[swap1],
        array[swap2]
    ] = [
        array[swap2],
        array[swap1]
    ];
}

Tests:

Length 10 temp swap
tempSwap(new Array(10));
Length 10 destructuring swap
destructuringSwap(new Array(10));
Length 100 temp swap
tempSwap(new Array(100));
Length 100 destructuring swap
destructuringSwap(new Array(100));
Length 1000 temp swap
tempSwap(new Array(1000));
Length 1000 destructuring swap
destructuringSwap(new Array(1000));

Run results for: Array item swapping, destructuring vs temp variable

Array destructuring vs temp variable use in array item swapping

Length 10 temp swap

Length 10 destructuring swap

Length 100 temp swap

Length 100 destructuring swap

Length 1000 temp swap

Length 1000 destructuring swap