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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 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 135
Operating system:
Mac OS X 10.15.7
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
one year ago
charAt()
161.7M/s
character index
155.5M/s
slice()
123.4M/s
at()
106.0M/s
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Test name
Executions per second
✓
charAt()
161,678,688 Ops/sec
character index
155,486,208 Ops/sec
slice()
123,388,536 Ops/sec
at()
106,039,976 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();