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char index vs charAt() vs slice() vs substr()
Compare methods for testing string's beggining character.
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 132
Operating system:
Mac OS X 10.15.7
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
one year ago
Benchmark engine:
Benchmark.js
charAt()
95.2M/s
character index
89.5M/s
substr()
87.9M/s
slice()
85.8M/s
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Test name
Executions per second
✓
charAt()
95,242,648 Ops/sec
character index
89,506,520 Ops/sec
substr()
87,851,072 Ops/sec
slice()
85,805,160 Ops/sec
Script Preparation code:
var str = 'foo bar baz'; var noop = Function.prototype;
Tests:
character index
if (str[0] == 'f') noop();
charAt()
if (str.charAt(0) == 'f') noop();
slice()
if (str.slice(0, 1) == 'f') noop();
substr()
if (str.substr(0, 1) == 'f') noop();