Run results for: json stringify vs array join

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2713.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 52

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
join	455948.9 Ops/sec
JSON.stringify	395931.0 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:

join
makeTestData().join('-')
JSON.stringify
JSON.stringify(makeTestData());

Run results for: json stringify vs array join

join

JSON.stringify