Run results for: json stringify vs array join

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 128

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

join

357K/s

JSON.stringify

339K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ join	356,520 Ops/sec
JSON.stringify	339,360 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

function moreData(arr, left) {
  if(left === 0) return arr;
  else {
    arr.push(Math.floor(Math.random() * 256));
  	return moreData(arr, left - 1);
  }
}
function makeTestData() { return moreData([], 4); }

Tests:

join
makeTestData().join('-')
JSON.stringify
JSON.stringify(makeTestData());