Run results for: String Constructor vs toString

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/142.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 142

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 8 months ago

String()

53.4M/s

toString()

49.4M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ String()	53,431,036 Ops/sec
toString()	49,365,040 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

function usingConstructor(values) {
   return values.map(String); 
}

function usingToString(values) {
   return values.map(v => v.toString()); 
}

Tests:

String()
usingConstructor([42, "42"])
toString()
usingToString([42, "42"])