Run results for: json stringify vs array tostring

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/604.5.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.0.3 Safari/604.5.6

Browser: Safari 11

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.12.6

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
toString	479702.6 Ops/sec
JSON.stringify	425661.9 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());

Run results for: json stringify vs array tostring

toString

JSON.stringify