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char index vs charAt() vs slice()
Compare methods for testing string's beggining character.
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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
character index
14.6M/s
charAt()
14.6M/s
slice()
14.3M/s
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Executions per second
✓
character index
14,582,637 Ops/sec
charAt()
14,579,406 Ops/sec
slice()
14,336,274 Ops/sec
Script Preparation code:
var str = 'foo bar baz'; var noop = Function.prototype;
Tests:
character index
if (str[0] == 'f') noop();
charAt()
if (str.charAt(0) == 'f') noop();
slice()
if (str.slice(0, 1) == 'f') noop();