Run results for: padLeft comparison with hard coded string

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.198 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 86

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.1

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
padLeft	272746.0 Ops/sec
slice	271640.0 Ops/sec
slice template literal	266582.2 Ops/sec
pad	171933.9 Ops/sec

HTML Preparation code:

<script>
const buffer = crypto.getRandomValues(new Uint8Array(16))

function pad(pad, str) {
  if (typeof str === 'undefined') 
    return pad

  return (pad + str).slice(-pad.length)
}
</script>

Tests:

padLeft
for (let string = '', i = 0; i < buffer.length; i++) { string += buffer[i].toString(16).padStart(2, '0') }
slice
for (let string = '', i = 0; i < buffer.length; i++) { string += ('00' + buffer[i].toString(16)).slice(-2) }
slice template literal
for (let string = '', i = 0; i < buffer.length; i++) { string += `00${buffer[i].toString(16)}`.slice(-2) }
pad
for (let string = '', i = 0; i < buffer.length; i++) { string += pad('00', buffer[i].toString(16)) }

Run results for: padLeft comparison with hard coded string

padLeft

slice

slice template literal

pad