Run results for: startsWith vs charCodeAt

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/145.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 145

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 7 months ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

charCodeAt

191.1M/s

startsWith

179.9M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ charCodeAt	191,097,376 Ops/sec
startsWith	179,925,568 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

str = "hello world"

Tests: