Benchmark: Most Significant Digit

Script Preparation code:

var randomNumbers = [0, 1, 632]

Tests:

String Interpolation
for(var n of randomNumbers){ console.log((""+n)[0]) }
Log based
for(var n of randomNumbers){ console.log(n / (10 ** Math.floor(Math.log10(n)))); }

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
String Interpolation
Log based

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 7 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.19 Safari/537.36 OPR/42.0.2392.0 (Edition developer)

Browser/OS: Opera 42 on Windows

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Test name	Executions per second
String Interpolation	32766.7 Ops/sec
Log based	31173.5 Ops/sec

Most Significant Digit (version: 1)

Comparing the performance of finding the most significant digit (in base 10), utilizing string interpolation and also log().

Comparing performance of: String Interpolation vs Log based

Created: 7 years ago by: Registered User

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String Interpolation

Log based

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A