Run results for: CharAt vs subscript ( [] ) in Javascript String

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 120

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

[0]

273K/s

CharAt (0)

270K/s

[n]

270K/s

CharAt (n)

269K/s

[len-1]

265K/s

charAt(len-1)

265K/s

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Script Preparation code:

const str = "Hello World";

Tests:

CharAt (0)
const str = "Hello World"; console.log(str.charAt(0))
[0]
const str = "Hello World"; console.log(str[0])
CharAt (n)
let n = 5; const str = "Hello World"; console.log(str.charAt(n))
[n]
let n = 5; const str = "Hello World"; console.log(str[n])
charAt(len-1)
const str = "Hello World"; let len = str.length; console.log(str.charAt(len-1))
[len-1]
const str = "Hello World"; let len = str.length; console.log(str[len-1])