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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_5_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.5 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 17

Operating system: iOS 17.5.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 5 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
Length 10 temp swap	2938326.8 Ops/sec
Length 10 destructuring swap	2961273.0 Ops/sec
Length 100 temp swap	2451464.5 Ops/sec
Length 100 destructuring swap	2477064.8 Ops/sec
Length 1000 temp swap	1162430.1 Ops/sec
Length 1000 destructuring swap	1177105.6 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