Run results for: stringify vs join vs tostring

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.5 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 18

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

stringify

110/s

toString

81/s

join

81/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ stringify	110 Ops/sec
toString	81 Ops/sec
join	81 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var arr_small = Array.from({ length: 1000 }).map((_, i) => `test_val${i}`);
var arr_big = Array.from({ length: 1000000 }).map((_, i) => `test_val${i}`);

Tests:

stringify
JSON.stringify(arr_small); JSON.stringify(arr_big);
join
arr_small.join(''); arr_big.join('');
toString
arr_small.toString(); arr_big.toString();