Run results for: forEach vs For of and startsWith 2 - MeasureThat.net

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 128

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
.startsWith forEach	21468552.0 Ops/sec
.charAt forEach	16210991.0 Ops/sec
[0] forEach	23027130.0 Ops/sec
.match forEach	6384308.5 Ops/sec
.startsWith	21684452.0 Ops/sec
.charAt	14979696.0 Ops/sec
[0]	21484344.0 Ops/sec
.match	6098553.5 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var strs = [
    '',
    '*',
    '#',
    '*short',
    '#short',
    '*'.padEnd(2500, '-'),
    '#'.padEnd(2500, '-'),
];

Tests:

.startsWith forEach
strs.forEach(str => {str.startsWith('*')})
.charAt forEach
strs.forEach(str => {str.charAt(0) === '*'})
[0] forEach
strs.forEach(str => {str[0] === '*'})
.match forEach
strs.forEach(str => {str.match(/^\*/)})
.startsWith
for(const str of strs) {str.startsWith('*')}
.charAt
for(const str of strs) {str.charAt(0) === '*'}
[0]
for(const str of strs) {str[0] === '*'}
.match
for(const str of strs) {str.match(/^\*/)}