Rotate the elements in an array in JavaScript

Question

I was wondering what was the most efficient way to rotate a JavaScript array.

I came up with this solution, where a positive n rotates the array to the

Answer 1

I am coming late but I have a brick to add to these good answers. I was asked to code such a function and I first did:

Array.prototype.rotate = function(n)
{
    for (var i = 0; i < n; i++)
    {
        this.push(this.shift());
    }
    return this;
}

But it appeared to be less efficient than following when n is big:

Array.prototype.rotate = function(n)
{
    var l = this.length;// Caching array length before map loop.

    return this.map(function(num, index) {
        return this[(index + n) % l]
    });
}