Run results for: slice VS splice VS pop for fixed size list of objects

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.6 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 15

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Script Preparation code:

var list = [];
for (let i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
  list.push({'s':'usd', 'p':i});
}

Tests:

slice
list.unshift({'s':'cad', 'p':13}) list.unshift({'s':'cad', 'p':14}) list.unshift({'s':'cad', 'p':15}) if(list.length>1000){ list=list.slice(0, 1000) }
splice
list.unshift({'s':'cad', 'p':13}) list.unshift({'s':'cad', 'p':14}) list.unshift({'s':'cad', 'p':15}) if(list.length>1000){ list.splice(1000, list.length); }
pop-while
list.unshift({'s':'cad', 'p':13}) list.unshift({'s':'cad', 'p':14}) list.unshift({'s':'cad', 'p':15}) while(list.length>1000){ list.pop(); }
pop-for
list.unshift({'s':'cad', 'p':13}) list.unshift({'s':'cad', 'p':14}) list.unshift({'s':'cad', 'p':15}) for(let i=998; i<list.length; i++){ list.pop(); }