Benchmark: toString vs Stringify vs backticks

Script Preparation code:

function moreData(arr, left) {
  if(left === 0) return arr;
  else {
    arr.push(Math.floor(Math.random() * 256));
  	return moreData(arr, left - 1);
  }
}
function makeTestData() { return moreData([], 4); }

Tests:

toString
makeTestData().toString()
stringify
JSON.stringify(makeTestData());
backticks
`${Object.values(makeTestData())}`

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
toString
stringify
backticks

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 6 days ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 124 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

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Test name	Executions per second
toString	1200689.0 Ops/sec
stringify	1165525.0 Ops/sec
backticks	1050849.0 Ops/sec

toString vs Stringify vs backticks (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: toString vs stringify vs backticks

Created: 3 years ago by: Guest

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toString

stringify

backticks

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A