Run results for: manual chars vs char code

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/121.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 121

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

char code

167K/s

manual chars

163K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ char code	166,879 Ops/sec
manual chars	162,901 Ops/sec

Tests:

manual chars
function wordToNums(word) { const alpha = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"; return word.split("").map((letter) => alpha.indexOf(letter.toLowerCase()) + 1).join(" "); } console.log(wordToNums("Elzero"));
char code
function wordToNums(word) { return word.split("").map((letter) => letter.toLowerCase().charCodeAt(0) - 96).join(" "); } console.log(wordToNums("Elzero"));