Run results for: parseInt vs toString vs string literal vs + empty string

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:125.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/125.0

Browser: Firefox 125

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

parseInt a number

82.9M/s

add empty string to string

25.5M/s

string literal a string

25.1M/s

toString a string

23.8M/s

add empty string to number

7.9M/s

toString a number

7.6M/s

string literal a number

7.2M/s

parseInt a string

6.4M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ parseInt a number	82,947,968 Ops/sec
add empty string to string	25,478,002 Ops/sec
string literal a string	25,068,576 Ops/sec
toString a string	23,817,100 Ops/sec
add empty string to number	7,944,851 Ops/sec
toString a number	7,575,877 Ops/sec
string literal a number	7,231,992 Ops/sec
parseInt a string	6,395,756 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var numbers = [1, 12, 123, 1234, 12345, 123456, 1234567, 12345678, 123456789];
var strNumbers = ["1", "12", "123", "1234", "12345", "123456", "1234567", "12345678", "123456789"];

Tests:

parseInt a number
numbers.forEach(n => parseInt(n, 10));
parseInt a string
strNumbers.forEach(n => parseInt(n, 10));
toString a number
numbers.forEach(n => n.toString());
toString a string
strNumbers.forEach(n => n.toString());
string literal a number
numbers.forEach(n => `${n}`);
string literal a string
strNumbers.forEach(n => `${n}`);
add empty string to number
numbers.forEach(n => n + "");
add empty string to string
strNumbers.forEach(n => n + "");