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

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 YaBrowser/24.12.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Yandex Browser 24

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

string[0]

165K/s

string.at()

40K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ string[0]	164,958 Ops/sec
string.at()	39,693 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

let string = 'a'.repeat(3000)

Tests: