Run results for: Array pop-push vs last index element check

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 11; 2201117SL) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/101.0.4951.61 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 101

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
pop-push check	779444.3 Ops/sec
last-index check	775743.6 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var arr1 = [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9];
var arr2 = [];

function pushPopLast(arr, n) {
  const element = arr.pop();
  arr.push(element);
  return element === n;
}

function indexLast(arr, n) {
  const element = arr[arr.lenght - 1];
  return element === n;
}

Tests:

pop-push check
pushPopLast(arr1, 8); pushPopLast(arr1, 9); pushPopLast(arr2, 9);
last-index check
indexLast(arr1, 8); indexLast(arr1, 9); indexLast(arr2, 9);

Run results for: Array pop-push vs last index element check

Comparing pop-push method vs last index check for an array element

pop-push check

last-index check