Run results for: string array join vs for loop concatenation

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_3_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.3.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 18

Operating system: iOS 18.3.2

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

For loop

216K/s

join

141K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ For loop	215,795 Ops/sec
join	140,838 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var strings = Array(1000).fill('hola soy edu feliz navidad');

Tests:

For loop
let result = '' for(let i = 0; i < strings.length; i++) { result += strings[i] + '\n'; }
join
const result = strings.join('\n');