Slice vs Substr vs Substring Methods (v119)

Revision 119 of this benchmark created by luplup on

Description

This is comparing the runtimes of substr, substring, and slice in a string for large (10000 character) string size.

Preparation HTML

<script>
  var longString = "";
  // Large = 10,000
  for (var i = 0; i < 10000; i++) {
        longString += Math.random().toString(36).slice(2,3);
  }
</script>

Test runner

Ready to run.

Testing in
TestOps/sec
Substring (long)
for (i = 0; i < longString.length; i++) {
  longString.substring(i, i+1);
}
ready
Slice (long)
for (i = 0; i < longString.length; i++) {
  longString.slice(i, i + 1);
}
ready
Substr (long)
for (i = 0; i < longString.length; i++) {
  longString.substr(i, 1);
}
ready

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