Run results for: startsWith vs charCodeAt

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 123

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

charCodeAt

9.3M/s

startsWith

9.1M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ charCodeAt	9,290,497 Ops/sec
startsWith	9,120,263 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

str = "hello world"

Tests: