Run results for: String concatenation vs array join

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:131.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/131.0

Browser: Firefox 131

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

String concatentation

8K/s

Array join

5K/s

Array join (w/ push)

87/s

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Script Preparation code:

var str = "";
var i;
var sArr = [];

Tests:

String concatentation
for (i = 1000; i > 0; i--) { str += "String concatenation. "; }
Array join
for (i = 1000; i > 0; i--) { sArr[i] = "String concatenation. "; } str = sArr.join("");
Array join (w/ push)
for (i = 1000; i > 0; i--) { sArr.push("String concatenation. "); } str = sArr.join("");