Run results for: parseInt vs charCodeAt

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:132.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/132.0

Browser: Firefox 132

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

charCodeAt

2.1M/s

parseInt

1.1M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ charCodeAt	2,145,073 Ops/sec
parseInt	1,072,114 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var strings = [
    "6",
    "4",
    "3",
    "4",
    "1",
    "1",
    "5",
    "4",
    "1",
    "3",
    "2",
    "2",
    "5",
    "7",
    "1",
    "2",
    "1",
    "0",
    "5",
    "7",
    "4",
    "5",
    "0",
    "5",
    "1",
    "0",
    "4",
    "1",
    "7",
    "7",
    "0",
    "4",
    "0",
    "6",
    "3",
    "7",
    "7",
    "7",
    "5",
    "0",
    "0",
    "5",
    "0",
    "3",
    "3",
    "0",
    "5",
    "0",
    "2",
    "6",
    "2",
    "3",
    "3",
    "6",
    "2",
    "3",
    "0",
    "5",
    "5",
    "5",
    "6",
    "2",
    "3",
    "4",
    "4",
    "0",
    "7",
    "2",
    "3",
    "2",
    "6",
    "1",
    "4",
    "1",
    "1",
    "6",
    "5",
    "7",
    "4",
    "2",
    "5",
    "4",
    "6",
    "3",
    "4",
    "5",
    "4",
    "6",
    "1",
    "0",
    "3",
    "4",
    "7",
    "1",
    "0",
    "5",
    "4",
    "5",
    "3",
    "6"
];

Tests:

parseInt
for (let s of strings) { let a = parseInt(s[0]); }
charCodeAt
for (let s of strings) { let a = s.charCodeAt(0) - 48; }