Benchmark: array.pop vs array[index]

Script Preparation code:

window.bigArray = (new Array(10000)).fill(null).map((el, index) => index);

Tests:

array[index]
for(let index = 0; index < 10000; index ++) { const current = bigArray[index]; console.log(current); }
array.pop()
for(let index = 0; index < 10000; index ++) { const current = bigArray.pop(); console.log(current); }

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
array[index]
array.pop()

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 2 days ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 YaBrowser/24.4.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Yandex Browser 24 on Windows

Test name	Executions per second
array[index]	21.1 Ops/sec
array.pop()	21.1 Ops/sec

array.pop vs array[index] (version: 0)