Fastest way to move first element to the end of an Array

Question

I'm wondering what is the fastest way in JavaScript to move an element from the beginning of an Array to the end. For example if we have

[8,1,2,3,4,5,6,7]

And we want: [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]

I want to move the first element to the end. I was thinking about switching element 0 with element 1, after that switching element 1 with element 2 and so on until the 8 is at the and (basically how bubblesort works). I was wondering if there is a faster way to bring the first element to the end.

I will be using small Arrays (around 10 elements), and I want to avoid shift() since it's pretty slow.

This is what I have now on chrome it's 45% faster than normal shift+push: http://jsperf.com/shift-myfunc

The arrays will have objects in them for a game.

Answer 1

var ary = [8,1,2,3,4,5,6,7];
ary.push(ary.shift());  // results in [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] 

jsFiddle example

var ary = [8,1,2,3,4,5,6,7];

console.log("Before: " + ary);

ary.push(ary.shift());  // results in [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] 

console.log("After: " + ary);