Run results for: string[index.length -1] vs slice(-1)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 127

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

slice

5.1M/s

index length

2.9M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ slice	5,103,119 Ops/sec
index length	2,873,176 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var example = 'there is no spoon'

Tests: