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char index vs charAt() vs slice() vs at()
Compare methods for testing string's beginning character.
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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
charAt()
69.6M/s
character index
67.7M/s
slice()
65.3M/s
at()
56.1M/s
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Test name
Executions per second
✓
charAt()
69,574,704 Ops/sec
character index
67,662,776 Ops/sec
slice()
65,260,428 Ops/sec
at()
56,149,068 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();
at()
if (str.at(0) === 'f') noop();