Run results for: charCodeAt vs []

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

charCodeAt(300)

170.9M/s

[10]

168.3M/s

charCodeAt(0)

163.0M/s

[0]

159.1M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ charCodeAt(300)	170,932,624 Ops/sec
[10]	168,317,552 Ops/sec
charCodeAt(0)	163,006,368 Ops/sec
[0]	159,106,176 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var str = "some string heresome string heresome string heresome string heresome string heresome string heresome string heresome string heresome string heresome string heresome string heresome string heresome string heresome string heresome string heresome string heresome string heresome string heresome string here"

Tests:

charCodeAt(0)
str.charCodeAt(0)
charCodeAt(300)
str.charCodeAt(300)
[0]
str[0]
[10]
str[300]