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  • \$\begingroup\$ MDN says that eval is the shortest. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Jan 23, 2013 at 13:30
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    \$\begingroup\$ eval.apply(0,Array(1e6)) saves 3 chars, you can even go with 9e9 at no cost \$\endgroup\$ Commented Feb 2, 2014 at 22:30
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    \$\begingroup\$ apply is a standard ECMAScript feature. There is nothing browser dependent. Unless you are talking about really old browsers, but this wouldn't work in hypothetical Netscape 2 with apply anyway, because Array class doesn't exist in Netscape 2. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Apr 2, 2014 at 12:02
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    \$\begingroup\$ new shortest in ES6: eval(...Array(9e9)) \$\endgroup\$ Commented Jan 25, 2016 at 7:36
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    \$\begingroup\$ Probably non-standard, throws in Chrome from the console. dir.apply(0,Array(1e7)); \$\endgroup\$ Commented Nov 21, 2016 at 22:05