How to improve my custom JavaScript Array Reverse Function?

Question

I am looking to improve a function I wrote for array reversal. I was interested in writing my own just for practice and I came up with this:

function rArray(array){
    var temp = [];
    var len = array.length - 1;
        for(i = len, index = 0 ; i >= 0; i--, index++){
            temp.push(array[i]); // temp[index] = array[i];
        }
    return temp;
}

I am looking to 1.) improve speed, and two, create a more efficient function by leaving less of a footprint, I want to make a destructive reversing function. Can this be done with a for loop or must I use a while()? Thanks for the input.

Possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5276953/what-is-the-most-efficient-way-to-reverse-an-array-in-javascript — juvian, Apr 27 '14 at 05:29

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 27 '14 at 05:37

You could get rid of index, since you aren't using it.

Or you could pre-allocate temp

     var temp = new Array(len);

You can't do both, though, since you would need index to add to the pre-allocated temp. You could run some experiments to see at what length pre-allocation becomes preferable (my guess: several million).

How to improve my custom JavaScript Array Reverse Function?

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