Benchmark: charCodeAt vs []

Script Preparation code:

var str = "some string heresome string heresome string heresome string heresome string heresome string heresome string heresome string heresome string heresome string heresome string heresome string heresome string heresome string heresome string heresome string heresome string heresome string heresome string here"

Tests:

charCodeAt(0)
str.charCodeAt(0)
charCodeAt(300)
str.charCodeAt(300)
[0]
str[0]
[10]
str[300]

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
charCodeAt(0)
charCodeAt(300)
[0]
[10]

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

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

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 122 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

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Test name	Executions per second
charCodeAt(0)	31459260.0 Ops/sec
charCodeAt(300)	31317800.0 Ops/sec
[0]	31786560.0 Ops/sec
[10]	31543690.0 Ops/sec

charCodeAt vs [] (version: 0)

Comparing performance of: charCodeAt(0) vs charCodeAt(300) vs [0] vs [10]

Created: 4 years ago by: Guest

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charCodeAt(0)

charCodeAt(300)

[0]

[10]

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A