Run results for: toString vs Stringify vs backticks

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:132.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/132.0

Browser: Firefox 132

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

toString

8.4M/s

stringify

4.1M/s

String()

2.7M/s

backticks

2.3M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ toString	8,417,015 Ops/sec
stringify	4,062,036 Ops/sec
String()	2,694,302 Ops/sec
backticks	2,348,150 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:

toString
makeTestData().toString()
stringify
JSON.stringify(makeTestData());
backticks
`${Object.values(makeTestData())}`
String()
String(makeTestData())