Benchmark: .startsWith vs .indexOf vs index

HTML Preparation code:

<div></div>

Script Preparation code:

window.regexStart = /^test/;
window.regexEnd = /test$/;
window.match = 'test';
window.matchLength = window.match.length;
var data = window.data = [];
const possible = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789";
var TOTAL_STRINGS = window.TOTAL_STRINGS = 100000;

function getRandomInt(max) {
  return Math.floor(Math.random() * max);
}

function makeRandomString(len) {
  var text = "";
  for( var i=0; i < len; i++ ) {
    text += possible.charAt(getRandomInt(possible.length));
  }
  return text;
}

while (data.length < TOTAL_STRINGS) {
  data.push(makeRandomString(getRandomInt(20)));
}

Tests:

startsWith
var x = 0; var TOTAL_STRINGS = window.TOTAL_STRINGS; var data = window.data; var match = window.match; var count = 0 while (x < TOTAL_STRINGS) { const str = data[x]; if(str.startsWith(match)) count++ x += 1; }
indexOf start
var x = 0; var TOTAL_STRINGS = window.TOTAL_STRINGS; var data = window.data; var match = window.match; var count = 0 while (x < TOTAL_STRINGS) { const str = data[x]; if(str.indexOf(match) === 0) count++; x += 1; }
Index
var x = 0; var TOTAL_STRINGS = window.TOTAL_STRINGS; var data = window.data; var match = window.match; var count = 0 while (x < TOTAL_STRINGS) { const str = data[x]; if(str[0] === match) count++; x += 1; }

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
startsWith
indexOf start
Index

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: one year ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:106.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/106.0

Browser/OS: Firefox 106 on Mac OS X 10.15

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Test name	Executions per second
startsWith	524.6 Ops/sec
indexOf start	549.4 Ops/sec
Index	292.1 Ops/sec

.startsWith vs .indexOf vs index (version: 0)

fork of https://www.measurethat.net/Benchmarks/Show/975/11/regex-vs-indexof-vs-startswith-vs-substr

Comparing performance of: startsWith vs indexOf start vs Index

Created: one year ago by: Guest

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startsWith

indexOf start

Index

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A