Run results for: string.at() vs string[0]

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:133.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/133.0

Browser: Firefox 133

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

string[0]

952K/s

string.at()

25K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ string[0]	951,922 Ops/sec
string.at()	25,230 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

let string = 'a'.repeat(3000)

Tests: