Run results for: json stringify vs array tostring when long array

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 Edg/145.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 145

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 months ago

JSON.stringify

5K/s

toString

3K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ JSON.stringify	4,600 Ops/sec
toString	3,479 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([], 5000); }

Tests:

toString
makeTestData().toString()
JSON.stringify
JSON.stringify(makeTestData());