Benchmark: stringify vs join vs tostring

Script Preparation code:

var arr_small = Array.from({ length: 1000 }).map((_, i) => `test_val${i}`);
var arr_big = Array.from({ length: 1000000 }).map((_, i) => `test_val${i}`);

Tests:

stringify
JSON.stringify(arr_small); JSON.stringify(arr_big);
join
arr_small.join(''); arr_big.join('');
toString
arr_small.toString(); arr_big.toString();

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
stringify
join
toString

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

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

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Test name	Executions per second
stringify	47.2 Ops/sec
join	70.1 Ops/sec
toString	70.5 Ops/sec

stringify vs join vs tostring (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: stringify vs join vs toString

Created: one year ago by: Guest

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stringify

join

toString

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A