Run results for: startsWith vs include vs substring vs Array.from

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

JS startsWith

157K/s

JS includes

150K/s

JS substring

64K/s

Array.from

107/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ JS startsWith	157,183 Ops/sec
JS includes	149,940 Ops/sec
JS substring	64,315 Ops/sec
Array.from	107 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

window.prefix = "!";
const possible = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789";

function getRandomInt(max) {
  return Math.floor(Math.random() * max);
}

function makeRandomString(len) {
  var text = "";
  for( var i=0; i < len; i++ ) {
    text += possible.charAt(getRandomInt(possible.length));
  }
  return text;
}

window.allStrings = [];
for (let i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
	allStrings.push(window.prefix + makeRandomString(1000));
	allStrings.push(makeRandomString(1000));
}

Tests:

JS startsWith
window.allStrings.forEach(s => { s.startsWith(window.prefix); })
JS includes
window.allStrings.forEach(s => { s.includes(window.prefix); })
JS substring
window.allStrings.forEach(s => { s.substring(0, window.prefix.length) === window.prefix; })
Array.from
window.allStrings.forEach(s => { Array.from(s)[0] === window.prefix; })