Discussion on: Is JavaScript's .shift() Method a Performance Boost?

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Replies for: Hey just to point out that shift itself is a bit of a pain doing it frequently - that's because a shift "might" have to move all of the elements in...

Thanks Mike for pointing out the potential costly operation of shift -- I read somewhere that also compared shift with push and pop, but your explanation makes more sense to me. And yes, using splice first and adding the specific items to the array via spread operator does look more efficient. Really appreciate your help! :)

Mike Talbot ⭐ • Jun 14 '20

Yeah we can do it without spread - but now it looks nicer in ES6 :)

    function rotateLeft(array, n) {
      n = n % array.length
      return array.push.apply(array, array.splice(0, n))
    }