Run results for: No string building — faster code! Or not?.. Big N.

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.93 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 90

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.14.6

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
build strings and compare them	1277076.0 Ops/sec
compare declarative objects	1275864.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

function translate(arg1, arg2) {
	return ` some long long very very long long text duck dat sit ${arg1} other text ${arg2}`;
}

const template = [' some long long very very long long text duck dat sit ', ' other text '];
function getTranslatable(arg1, arg2) {
	return {
		template: template,
		args: [arg1, arg2],
	};
}

function isEqual(t1, t2) {
	if (t1.template !== t2.template) {
		return false;
	}
	
	return t1.args.every((arg, index) => arg === t2.args[index]);
	
}

results1 = [];
results2 = [];

Tests:

build strings and compare them
const s1 = translate(123456, 'foo'.repeat(50)); const s2 = translate(123456, 'foo'.repeat(50)); results1.push(s1 !== s2);
compare declarative objects
const t1 = getTranslatable(123456, 'foo'.repeat(50)); const t2 = getTranslatable(123456, 'foo'.repeat(50)); results2.push(isEqual(t1, t2));

Run results for: No string building — faster code! Or not?.. Big N.

build strings and compare them

compare declarative objects