Run results for: Substring vs string array access

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/110.0

Browser: Firefox 110

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
Substring	57364810.0 Ops/sec
String array access	814772900.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var text = "as dflkjasd flkasjdf";

Tests:

Substring
var a = text.substring(0, 1); var b = text.substring(3, 4); var c = text.substring(10, 11);
String array access
var a = text[0]; var b = text[3]; var c = text[10];