String concatenation (v19)

Revision 19 of this benchmark created on

Description

Different ways to concatenate strings together

Preparation HTML

<script>
  var arr = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd','e','f','g','h','a', 'b', 'c', 'd','e','f','g','h','a', 'b', 'c', 'd','e','f','g','h','a', 'b', 'c', 'd','e','f','g','h','a', 'b', 'c', 'd','e','f','g','h','a', 'b', 'c', 'd','e','f','g','h','a', 'b', 'c', 'd','e','f','g','h','a', 'b', 'c', 'd','e','f','g','h']
</script>

Test runner

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Testing in
TestOps/sec
Direct concatenation
var foo = 'a' + 'b' + 'c' + 'd' + 'e' + 'f' + 'g' + 'h' +  'a' + 'b' + 'c' + 'd' + 'e' + 'f' + 'g' + 'h' +  'a' + 'b' + 'c' + 'd' + 'e' + 'f' + 'g' + 'h' +  'a' + 'b' + 'c' + 'd' + 'e' + 'f' + 'g' + 'h' + 'a' + 'b' + 'c' + 'd' + 'e' + 'f' + 'g' + 'h' +  'a' + 'b' + 'c' + 'd' + 'e' + 'f' + 'g' + 'h' +  'a' + 'b' + 'c' + 'd' + 'e' + 'f' + 'g' + 'h' + 'a' + 'b' + 'c' + 'd' + 'e' + 'f' + 'g' + 'h';
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Individual += statements
var foo = 'a';
foo += 'b';
foo += 'c';
foo += 'd';
foo += 'e';
foo += 'f';
foo += 'g';
foo += 'h';
foo += 'a';
foo += 'b';
foo += 'c';
foo += 'd';
foo += 'e';
foo += 'f';
foo += 'g';
foo += 'h';
foo += 'a';
foo += 'b';
foo += 'c';
foo += 'd';
foo += 'e';
foo += 'f';
foo += 'g';
foo += 'h';
foo += 'a';
foo += 'b';
foo += 'c';
foo += 'd';
foo += 'e';
foo += 'f';
foo += 'g';
foo += 'h';
foo += 'a';
foo += 'b';
foo += 'c';
foo += 'd';
foo += 'e';
foo += 'f';
foo += 'g';
foo += 'h';
foo += 'a';
foo += 'b';
foo += 'c';
foo += 'd';
foo += 'e';
foo += 'f';
foo += 'g';
foo += 'h';
foo += 'a';
foo += 'b';
foo += 'c';
foo += 'd';
foo += 'e';
foo += 'f';
foo += 'g';
foo += 'h';
foo += 'a';
foo += 'b';
foo += 'c';
foo += 'd';
foo += 'e';
foo += 'f';
foo += 'g';
foo += 'h';
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Individual statements
var foo = 'a';
foo = foo + 'b';
foo = foo + 'c';
foo = foo + 'd';
foo = foo + 'e';
foo = foo + 'f';
foo = foo + 'g';
foo = foo + 'h';
foo = foo + 'a';
foo = foo + 'b';
foo = foo + 'c';
foo = foo + 'd';
foo = foo + 'e';
foo = foo + 'f';
foo = foo + 'g';
foo = foo + 'h';
foo = foo + 'a';
foo = foo + 'b';
foo = foo + 'c';
foo = foo + 'd';
foo = foo + 'e';
foo = foo + 'f';
foo = foo + 'g';
foo = foo + 'h';
foo = foo + 'a';
foo = foo + 'b';
foo = foo + 'c';
foo = foo + 'd';
foo = foo + 'e';
foo = foo + 'f';
foo = foo + 'g';
foo = foo + 'h';
foo = foo + 'a';
foo = foo + 'b';
foo = foo + 'c';
foo = foo + 'd';
foo = foo + 'e';
foo = foo + 'f';
foo = foo + 'g';
foo = foo + 'h';
foo = foo + 'a';
foo = foo + 'b';
foo = foo + 'c';
foo = foo + 'd';
foo = foo + 'e';
foo = foo + 'f';
foo = foo + 'g';
foo = foo + 'h';
foo = foo + 'a';
foo = foo + 'b';
foo = foo + 'c';
foo = foo + 'd';
foo = foo + 'e';
foo = foo + 'f';
foo = foo + 'g';
foo = foo + 'h';
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Using Array#join
var foo = arr.join('');
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Single individual statement
var foo = 'a';
foo += 'b' + 'c' + 'd' + 'e' + 'f' + 'g' + 'h' + 'a' + 'b' + 'c' + 'd' + 'e' + 'f' + 'g' + 'h' + 'a' + 'b' + 'c' + 'd' + 'e' + 'f' + 'g' + 'h' + 'a' + 'b' + 'c' + 'd' + 'e' + 'f' + 'g' + 'h' + 'a' + 'b' + 'c' + 'd' + 'e' + 'f' + 'g' + 'h' + 'a' + 'b' + 'c' + 'd' + 'e' + 'f' + 'g' + 'h' + 'a' + 'b' + 'c' + 'd' + 'e' + 'f' + 'g' + 'h' + 'a' + 'b' + 'c' + 'd' + 'e' + 'f' + 'g' + 'h';
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Function based (for)
function concat(arr) {
  len = arr.length;
  for (s = "", i = 0; i < len; s += arr[i], i++);
  return s;
}

var foo = concat(arr);
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no concatenation
var foo = "abcdefghabcdefghabcdefghabcdefghabcdefghabcdefghabcdefghabcdefgh"
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string.concat
"a".concat("b", "c", "d","e","f","g","h","a","b", "c", "d","e","f","g","h","a","b", "c", "d","e","f","g","h","a","b", "c", "d","e","f","g","h","a","b", "c", "d","e","f","g","h","a","b", "c", "d","e","f","g","h","a","b", "c", "d","e","f","g","h","a","b", "c", "d","e","f","g","h");
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