Run results for: String concatenation vs array join

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/116.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 116

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Array join

4K/s

String concatentation

1K/s

Array join (w/ push)

68/s

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Script Preparation code:

var str = "";
var i;
var sArr = [];

Tests:

String concatentation
for (i = 1000; i > 0; i--) { str += "String concatenation. "; }
Array join
for (i = 1000; i > 0; i--) { sArr[i] = "String concatenation. "; } str = sArr.join("");
Array join (w/ push)
for (i = 1000; i > 0; i--) { sArr.push("String concatenation. "); } str = sArr.join("");