Run results for: string[0] vs slice(0,1)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:123.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/123.0

Browser: Firefox 123

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

index length

1449.1M/s

slice

1423.9M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ index length	1,449,092,864 Ops/sec
slice	1,423,920,128 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var example = 'there is no spoon'

Tests: