Run results for: Substring vs string array access

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:86.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/86.0

Browser: Firefox 86

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.14

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
Substring	12644030.0 Ops/sec
String array access	645655200.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var text = "as dflkjasd flkasjdf";

Tests:

Substring
var a = text.substring(0, 1); var b = text.substring(3, 4); var c = text.substring(10, 11);
String array access
var a = text[0]; var b = text[3]; var c = text[10];