Run results for: Array split vs string substring

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 129

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Array.split

3.5M/s

Substring

2.9M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Array.split	3,498,419 Ops/sec
Substring	2,945,455 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var s1 = "foo.bar";
var s2 = "foo";

Tests:

Array.split
var n1 = s1.split(".")[0]; var n2 = s2.split(".")[0];
Substring
var n1 = s1.substring(0, s1.indexOf(".")); var n2 = s2.substring(0, s2.indexOf("."));