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

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Replies for: Thanks Mike for pointing out the potential costly operation of shift -- I read somewhere that also compared shift with push and pop, but your expla...

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Mike Talbot ⭐ •

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))
    }