Run results for: json stringify vs array join (string) 2

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/138.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 138

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 11 months ago

JSON.stringify

4.3M/s

join

3.9M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ JSON.stringify	4,279,028 Ops/sec
join	3,908,514 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

function moreData(arr, left) {
  if(left === 0) return arr;
  else {
    arr.push("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing");
  	return moreData(arr, left - 1);
  }
}
function makeTestData() { return moreData([], 4); }

Tests:

join
makeTestData().sort().join('-')
JSON.stringify
JSON.stringify(makeTestData());