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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 122

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

index length

16.6M/s

slice

16.4M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ index length	16,600,545 Ops/sec
slice	16,397,470 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var example = 'there is no spoon'

Tests: