Run results for: String Constructor vs toString

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:147.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/147.0

Browser: Firefox 147

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 months ago

String()

13.5M/s

toString()

10.8M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ String()	13,544,948 Ops/sec
toString()	10,786,306 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"])