Benchmark: startsWith vs includes (same search)

Tests:

includes
const str = "https://firebase.com/this/is/a/long/thing" str.includes("https://firebase")
startsWith
const str = "https://firebase.com/this/is/a/long/thing" str.startsWith("https://firebase")

Historical Performance Data aggregated from 133 community runs

Desktop Results:

Chrome 122 runs

includes

168.1M/s

startsWith

45.9M/s

Fastest: includes (3.7x faster)

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✓ includes: 168,094,240 ops/sec
• startsWith: 45,866,280 ops/sec

Firefox 11 runs

startsWith

1587.7M/s

includes

1570.3M/s

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✓ startsWith: 1,587,701,632 ops/sec
• includes: 1,570,348,544 ops/sec

Results show median performance across all community submissions. Run this benchmark yourself to verify on your device.

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
includes
startsWith

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 3 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/145.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 145 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

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includes

265.0M/s

startsWith

63.6M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ includes	265,022,512 Ops/sec
startsWith	63,552,328 Ops/sec

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated one year ago):

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**Benchmark Definition and Preparation**

The benchmark definition is essentially a description of what needs to be tested. In this case, there are two test cases:

1. `includes`: The script searches for the presence of a substring within a string using the `includes()` method.
2. `startsWith`: The script searches for the presence of a prefix within a string using the `startsWith()` method.

The script preparation code and HTML preparation code fields are left blank, which means that MeasureThat.net will automatically generate these codes for the benchmark.

**Options Compared**

In this benchmark, two options are compared:

1. `includes()`: Uses the `includes()` method to search for a substring within a string.
2. `startsWith()`: Uses the `startsWith()` method to search for a prefix within a string.

**Pros and Cons of Each Approach**

Here's a brief analysis of each approach:

* `includes()`:
	+ Pros: Generally faster and more widely supported than `startsWith()`.
	+ Cons: Can be slower for longer substrings or prefixes, as it uses a simple substring search algorithm.
* `startsWith()`: 
	+ Pros: Often faster for longer prefixes or substrings, as it uses a more efficient algorithm that takes advantage of the prefix.
	+ Cons: Less widely supported than `includes()` and may not work in older browsers.

**Library**

In both test cases, no libraries are explicitly mentioned. However, the `includes()` method is built-in to JavaScript, while the `startsWith()` method was introduced in ECMAScript 2017 (ES7).

**Special JS Feature/Syntax**

Neither of the two methods relies on any special JavaScript features or syntax that would require additional explanation.

**Other Alternatives**

There are other alternatives for string searching in JavaScript, such as using regular expressions. For example:

* `String.prototype.indexOf()`: Searches for a substring within a string and returns its index.
* `String.prototype.lastIndexOf()`: Searches for the last occurrence of a substring within a string and returns its index.

However, these alternatives may not be included in this benchmark, as they are not directly compared to the `includes()` and `startsWith()` methods.

Overall, MeasureThat.net's benchmark provides a simple and concise way to compare the performance of two common JavaScript methods for searching substrings or prefixes within strings.

startsWith vs includes (same search) (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: `includes vs startsWith`

Created: 5 years ago by: Guest

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includes

startsWith

Historical Performance Data aggregated from 133 community runs

Desktop Results:

Chrome 122 runs

Firefox 11 runs

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated one year ago):

startsWith vs includes (same search) (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: includes vs startsWith

Created: 5 years ago by: Guest

Go to the latest result

includes

startsWith

Historical Performance Data aggregated from 133 community runs

Desktop Results:

Chrome 122 runs

Firefox 11 runs

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated one year ago):

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