Run results for: Native JS: concatenate string with + vs template literals vs String.concat vs array join

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 132

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

using template literals

73K/s

using plus operator

70K/s

using concat function

57K/s

using join

41K/s

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Script Preparation code:

var name = "name";
var id = "id";

Tests:

using plus operator
for (let i = 0; i < 80; ++i) { let result = id + ": 1, " + name + ": someItem"; }
using concat function
for (let i = 0; i < 80; ++i) { let result = "".concat(id, ": 1, ", name, ": someItem"); }
using template literals
for (let i = 0; i < 80; ++i) { let result = `${id}: 1, ${name}: someItem`; }
using join
for (let i = 0; i < 80; ++i) { let result = [id, ": 1, ", name, ": someItem"].join(''); }