Run results for: json stringify vs array tostring vs array join

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/94.0.4606.61 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 94

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 3 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
toString	522299.7 Ops/sec
JSON.stringify	513247.7 Ops/sec
Array.join	543305.6 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

function moreData(arr, left) {
  if(left === 0) return arr;
  else {
    arr.push(Math.floor(Math.random() * 256));
  	return moreData(arr, left - 1);
  }
}
function makeTestData() { return moreData([], 4); }

Tests:

toString
makeTestData().toString()
JSON.stringify
JSON.stringify(makeTestData());
Array.join
makeTestData().join(',')

Run results for: json stringify vs array tostring vs array join

toString

JSON.stringify

Array.join