Run results for: json stringify vs array tostring vs array join

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/141.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 141

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 9 months ago

JSON.stringify

12.8M/s

Array.join

11.8M/s

toString

9.1M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ JSON.stringify	12,839,452 Ops/sec
Array.join	11,803,544 Ops/sec
toString	9,082,565 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

function moreData(arr, left) {
  if(left === 0) return arr;
  else {
    arr.push(Math.floor(Math.random() * 256));
  	return moreData(arr, left - 1);
  }
}
function makeTestData() { return moreData([], 4); }

Tests:

toString
makeTestData().toString()
JSON.stringify
JSON.stringify(makeTestData());
Array.join
makeTestData().join(',')