Run results for: Array join vs string template

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.6 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 17

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

template literal

6.7M/s

Array

4.7M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ template literal	6,697,882 Ops/sec
Array	4,729,463 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var str = "Hello World"
var newStr = "Goodbye"
var start = 5

Tests:

Array
const foo = [ str.slice(0, start), newStr, str.slice(start) ].join('')
template literal
const foo = `${str.slice(0, start)}${newStr}${str.slice(start)}`