Run results for: Array.concat vs Array.prototype.concat.apply

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.130 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 79

Operating system: Windows 8.1

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Array.concat	182496.1 Ops/sec
Array.prototype.concat.apply	162306.6 Ops/sec
Array.prototype.concat.apply short form	168777.6 Ops/sec
Array.prototype.concat.apply short form without new empty array instance in apply	149095.7 Ops/sec
Array.prototype.concat.apply short form without new empty array at all	142787.8 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var array1 = Array(400).fill().map(() => Math.round(Math.random() * 40));
var array2 = Array(400).fill().map(() => Math.round(Math.random() * 40));
var array3 = Array(400).fill().map(() => Math.round(Math.random() * 40));
var array4 = Array(400).fill().map(() => Math.round(Math.random() * 40));
var array5 = Array(400).fill().map(() => Math.round(Math.random() * 40));

Tests:

Array.concat
var others = array1.concat(array2, array3, array4, array5);
Array.prototype.concat.apply
var others = Array.prototype.concat.apply([], [array1, array2, array3, array4, array5]);
Array.prototype.concat.apply short form
var others = [].concat.apply([], [array1, array2, array3, array4, array5]);
Array.prototype.concat.apply short form without new empty array instance in apply
var others = [].concat.apply(array1, [array2, array3, array4, array5]);
Array.prototype.concat.apply short form without new empty array at all
var others = array1.concat.apply(array1, [array2, array3, array4, array5]);

Run results for: Array.concat vs Array.prototype.concat.apply

Compare direct concat call with apply for multiple arrays concatenation

Array.concat

Array.prototype.concat.apply

Array.prototype.concat.apply short form

Array.prototype.concat.apply short form without new empty array instance in apply

Array.prototype.concat.apply short form without new empty array at all