Run results for: float toString() vs toFixed() for a number with many decimals

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:142.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/142.0

Browser: Firefox 142

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

toFixed(4)

16.7M/s

toString()

10.6M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ toFixed(4)	16,650,836 Ops/sec
toString()	10,552,174 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

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Script Preparation code:

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async function globalMeasureThatScriptPrepareFunction() {
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let buf ='';

Tests:

toString()
/*When writing async/deferred tests, use `deferred.resolve()` to mark test as done*/ buf = Math.random().toString();
toFixed(4)
buf = Math.random().toFixed(4);