Benchmark: String Constructor vs toString

Script Preparation code:

function usingConstructor(values) {
   return values.map(String); 
}

function usingToString(values) {
   return values.map(v => v.toString()); 
}

Tests:

String()
usingConstructor([42, "42"])
toString()
usingToString([42, "42"])

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
String()
toString()

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 9 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/114.0.1823.79

Browser/OS: Chrome 114 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
String()	2833180.0 Ops/sec
toString()	3546474.0 Ops/sec

String Constructor vs toString (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: String() vs toString()

Created: 9 months ago by: Guest

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String()

toString()

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A