Run results for: json stringify vs array join (string)

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:150.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/150.0

Browser: Firefox 150

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 months ago

join

9.2M/s

JSON.stringify

3.8M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ join	9,178,878 Ops/sec
JSON.stringify	3,799,881 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

function moreData(arr, left) {
  if(left === 0) return arr;
  else {
    arr.push("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing");
  	return moreData(arr, left - 1);
  }
}
function makeTestData() { return moreData([], 4); }

Tests:

join
makeTestData().join('-')
JSON.stringify
JSON.stringify(makeTestData());