Run results for: charAt() vs slice()

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/103.0.5060.134 Safari/537.36 OPR/89.0.4447.83 (Edition Yx 05)

Browser: Opera 89

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
charAt()	6160420.5 Ops/sec
slice()	11457412.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var str = 'foo bar baz';
var noop = Function.prototype;

Tests:

charAt()
if (str.charAt(str.length - 1) == 'f') noop();
slice()
if (str.slice(-1) == 'f') noop();

Run results for: charAt() vs slice()

Compare methods for accessing string's last character

charAt()

slice()