Run results for: Simple string compare vs SHA-1 hash

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 119

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
===	1492.1 Ops/sec
SHA-1	24.5 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

let s10MB = "0123456789".repeat(1000*1000);
var strings10MB = Array.from(Array(20)).map(o=>s10MB + String.fromCharCode(32+~~(Math.random()*96)));

function hashString(input) {
    var encoder = new TextEncoder();
    return crypto.subtle.digest('SHA-1', encoder.encode(input)).then(function (hashBuffer) {
      var hashArray = Array.from(new Uint8Array(hashBuffer));
      return hashArray.map(byte => byte.toString(16).padStart(2, '0')).join('');
    });
}

Tests:

===
const s1 = strings10MB[~~(strings10MB.length*Math.random())]; const s2 = strings10MB[~~(strings10MB.length*Math.random())]; const b = s1 === s2;
SHA-1
const s1 = strings10MB[~~(strings10MB.length*Math.random())]; const s2 = strings10MB[~~(strings10MB.length*Math.random())]; const hash1 = hashString(s1); const hash2 = hashString(s2); const b = hash1 === hash2;

Run results for: Simple string compare vs SHA-1 hash

Worst case large string comparison.

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SHA-1