Benchmark: String indexOf vs includes

Script Preparation code:

var str = "penpineappleapplepen"

Tests:

indexOf
str.indexOf('pineapple') !== 1
includes
str.includes('pineapple')

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
indexOf
includes

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Sumamry (model llama3.2:3b, generated 2 days ago):

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Let's break down the benchmark and explain what's being tested.

**Benchmark Overview**

The benchmark is comparing the performance of two methods: `String.indexOf()` and `String.includes()`. Both methods are used to find the index of a substring within a string.

**Options Compared**

Two options are compared:

1. `String.indexOf()`: This method returns the index of the first occurrence of the specified value, or -1 if it's not found.
2. `String.includes()`: This method returns true if the string includes the specified value, and false otherwise.

**Pros and Cons**

* **`String.indexOf()`**:
	+ Pros: Generally faster than `String.includes()` since it only needs to find the first occurrence of the substring.
	+ Cons: Returns an index, which may not be immediately useful for all use cases. Also, it's more prone to errors if the string is modified or the substring is not found.
* **`String.includes()`**:
	+ Pros: Easier to understand and use, especially for developers who are new to JavaScript. It returns a boolean value (true/false), which can be more convenient than an index.
	+ Cons: Generally slower than `String.indexOf()`, since it needs to check the entire string.

**Library Used**

In this benchmark, no specific library is used. The methods are part of the built-in JavaScript String prototype.

**Special JS Feature or Syntax**

This benchmark does not use any special JavaScript features or syntax beyond what's commonly used in vanilla JavaScript.

**Other Alternatives**

If you need to measure the performance of other string-related methods, you might consider:

* `String.prototype.replace()`: This method replaces all occurrences of a substring with another value.
* `String.prototype.split()`: This method splits a string into an array of substrings based on a separator.

For example, you could create a new benchmark that compares the performance of `String.indexOf()` and `String.includes()` against `String.prototype.replace()`, which might be useful if you need to perform regular expression replacements frequently.

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 3 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.141 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 87 on Linux

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Test name	Executions per second
indexOf	18343710.0 Ops/sec
includes	12391830.0 Ops/sec

Related benchmarks:

String indexOf vs includes (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: indexOf vs includes

Created: 3 years ago by: Guest

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indexOf

includes

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Sumamry (model llama3.2:3b, generated 2 days ago):