Run results for: Array split vs string substring

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:124.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/124.0

Browser: Firefox 124

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Substring

786.4M/s

Array.split

8.0M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Substring	786,395,840 Ops/sec
Array.split	8,046,051 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var s1 = "foo.bar";
var s2 = "foo";

Tests:

Array.split
var n1 = s1.split(".")[0]; var n2 = s2.split(".")[0];
Substring
var n1 = s1.substring(0, s1.indexOf(".")); var n2 = s2.substring(0, s2.indexOf("."));