Run results for: String concatenation vs array join

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/101.0.4951.64 Safari/537.36 OPR/87.0.4390.25

Browser: Opera 87

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
String concatentation	3666.9 Ops/sec
Array join	10452.5 Ops/sec
Array join (w/ push)	95.8 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var str = "";
var i;
var sArr = [];

Tests:

String concatentation
for (i = 1000; i > 0; i--) { str += "String concatenation. "; }
Array join
for (i = 1000; i > 0; i--) { sArr[i] = "String concatenation. "; } str = sArr.join("");
Array join (w/ push)
for (i = 1000; i > 0; i--) { sArr.push("String concatenation. "); } str = sArr.join("");

Run results for: String concatenation vs array join

String concatentation

Array join

Array join (w/ push)