Worst case should be O(n)
(copying all n-1
elements to new array).
A linked list would be O(1)
for a single deletion.
For those interested I’ve made this lazily-crafted benchmark. (Please don’t run on Windows XP/Vista). As you can see from this though, it looks fairly constant (i.e. O(1)
), so who knows what they’re doing behind the scenes to make this crazy-fast. Note that regardless, the actual splice
is VERY fast.
Rerunning an extended benchmark directly in the V8 shell that suggest O(n)
. Note though that you need huge array sizes to get a runtime that’s likely to affect your code. This should be expected as if you look at the V8 code it uses memmove
to create the new array.