Run results for: clearing array via pop() vs shift() vs .length = 0 vs = []

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 13_5_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 13

Operating system: iOS 13.5.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
pop	10182150.0 Ops/sec
shift	10150320.0 Ops/sec
length	8455437.0 Ops/sec
reassignment	6666943.0 Ops/sec
.splice(0)	6190746.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var array = [];

for(var i = 0; i < 100000; i++){array.push(Math.random());}

Tests:

pop
while (array.length > 0) { array.pop(); }
shift
while (array.length > 0) { array.shift(); }
length
array.length = 0
reassignment
array = []
.splice(0)
array.splice(0);

Run results for: clearing array via pop() vs shift() vs .length = 0 vs = []

pop

shift

length

reassignment

.splice(0)