Benchmark Run Result for: Get the only item in an array

Get the only item in an array

How do array.toString(), array.shift(), and array.pop() compare to array[0] when retrieving the only item in an array

Date tested: one year ago

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Test name	Executions per second
Using toString()	8925737.0 Ops/sec
Using shift()	18678308.0 Ops/sec
Using pop()	19230830.0 Ops/sec
Using [0]	19428168.0 Ops/sec

Benchmark definition (click to collapse):

Script Preparation code:

var array = ['bigface'];

Tests:

Using toString()
array.toString();
Using shift()
array.shift();
Using pop()
array.pop();
Using [0]
array[0];

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