Benchmark: manual chars vs char code

Tests:

manual chars
function wordToNums(word) { const alpha = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"; return word.split("").map((letter) => alpha.indexOf(letter.toLowerCase()) + 1).join(" "); } console.log(wordToNums("Elzero"));
char code
function wordToNums(word) { return word.split("").map((letter) => letter.toLowerCase().charCodeAt(0) - 96).join(" "); } console.log(wordToNums("Elzero"));

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
manual chars
char code

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 2 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/121.0.0.0

Browser/OS: Chrome 121 on Windows

Test name	Executions per second
manual chars	162900.9 Ops/sec
char code	166879.5 Ops/sec

manual chars vs char code (version: 0)