Bug 209176

While the spec mandates Array.prototype.shift() to be generic, and that for the generic case, O(N) operations are necessary, this is not the case for plain Arrays, especially if they are dense (no idea what goes under the hood for arrays with holesin JSC).

For dense arrays, once can bump the array pointer, decrement the length and call it a day in O(1).

SpiderMonkey and V8 actually do this, the perf of myArray.shift() is identical to myArray.pop(), whereas in JSC the latter takes O(N) time: 

  a.slice().shift() 

takes twice the time of 

  a.slice().pop()


Observed in Safari 13 and Safari TP on MacOS Mojave. Test here: https://jsperf.com/shiftcorn/1 


It would be nice if the common case of dense arrays was optimized in Safari.

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Aside, I've tried to get the three latest Mojave Build Archives to run to no avail (258541, 258543 and 258545); this may be a local problem on my machine, I also have periodic Core Audio crashes.

  Setting DYLD FRAMEWORK and LIBRARY paths to /Users/pygy/Downloads/258545/Release
  dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _WKContextConfigurationSetShouldCaptureAudioInUIProcess
    Referenced from: /System/Library/StagedFrameworks/Safari/Safari.framework/Versions/A/Safari
    Expected in: /Users/pygy/Downloads/258545/Release/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/WebKit

  dyld: Symbol not found: _WKContextConfigurationSetShouldCaptureAudioInUIProcess
    Referenced from: /System/Library/StagedFrameworks/Safari/Safari.framework/Versions/A/Safari
    Expected in: /Users/pygy/Downloads/258545/Release/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/WebKit


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