String vs Array concat (v12)

Revision 12 of this benchmark created on

Description

A test case to see if concatenating an array instead of a string for an inflate library would perform better, based on this post: http://my.opera.com/emoller/blog/2011/05/01/javascript-performance

Setup

var precompiled = 'apple';
    while (precompiled.length < 100) {
      var offs = precompiled.length - 5;
      for (var i = offs; i < offs + 10; ++i) {
        // calling charAt(i) on `precompiled` will
        // flatten the string in most engines
        precompiled += precompiled.charAt(i);
      }
    }

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String
var dest = 'apple';
while (dest.length < 100) {
  var offs = dest.length - 5;
  for (var i = offs; i < offs + 10; i++) {
    dest += dest.charAt(i);
  }
}
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String w/o flattening
var dest = 'apple';
while (dest.length < 100) {
  var offs = dest.length - 5;
  for (var i = offs; i < offs + 10; i++) {
    dest += precompiled.charAt(i);
  }
}
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String w/o flattening by index (IE > 7)
var dest = 'apple';
while (dest.length < 100) {
  var offs = dest.length - 5;
  for (var i = offs; i < offs + 10; i++) {
    dest += precompiled[i];
  }
}
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Array
var dest = ['a', 'p', 'p', 'l', 'e'];
while (dest.length < 100) {
  var offs = dest.length - 5;
  for (var i = offs; i < offs + 10; i++) {
    dest.push(dest[i]);
  }
}
dest = dest.join('');
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