Run results for: unshift vs sort

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.88 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 87

Operating system: Fedora

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
unshift	1.3 Ops/sec
swapping	784.9 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var arr = [...Array(10000)].map((_,i) => i)

Tests:

unshift
arr.forEach((v,i) => { console.log(v,i); arr.unshift(arr.splice(i,1).shift()) })
swapping
arr.sort((a,b) => (a === b) ? 0 : (a < b) ? 1 : -1)