Discussion on: Basic Javascript: Removing Duplicates from an Array

[JonasNo]

Performance test shows this function is the fastest one:
function removeDuplicates3(array) {
array.splice(0, array.length, ...(new Set(array)))
}

Setup js, executed for each test:
function getRandomInt(max) {
return Math.floor(Math.random() * Math.floor(max));
}
const base = ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h"];
const array_test_length = 5000;
var arr = [];
arr.length = array_test_length;
for (let i = 0, len = arr.length, blen = base.length; i < len; ++i) {
arr[i] = base[getRandomInt(blen)];
}

function removeDuplicates1(array) {
return array.filter((a, b) => array.indexOf(a) === b)
}

function removeDuplicates2(array) {
let x = {};
array.forEach(function(i) {
if(!x[i]) {
x[i] = true
}
})
return Object.keys(x)
}

function removeDuplicates3(array) {
array.splice(0, array.length, ...(new Set(array)))
}

function removeDuplicates4(array) {
let a = []
array.map(x => {
if(!a.includes(x)) {
a.push(x)
}
})
return a
}

function removeDuplicates5(array) {
return [...new Set(array)]
}

function removeDuplicates6(arr){
return arr.reduce((acc, curr) => acc.includes(curr) ? acc : [...acc, curr], []);
}

function removeDuplicates7(array){
let a = []
for(let val of array) {
if (!isExist(a, val))
a.push(val)
}
return a
}
function isExist (arr, val){
for (let i of arr){
if (i == val) return true
}
return false
}

function removeDuplicates8(array){
return array.reduce((acc, item) => {
if(!acc.includes(item)) {
acc.push(item);
}
return acc;
}, []);
}

Each test goes like this:
var new_arr = removeDuplicates1(arr); // only need to change the number