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Run results for: Remove last element of string: slice vs substr vs substring

Compares slice, substr and substring to each other when there is only a start index

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Run details:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/115.0.1901.200
Chrome 115
Windows
Desktop
one year ago
Test name Executions per second
slice 2700655.5 Ops/sec
substr 1322170.1 Ops/sec
substring 1215663.0 Ops/sec
Script Preparation code:
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var example = 'there is no spoon'
Tests:

  • slice

     
    var result = example.slice(0,-1)

  • substr

     
    var result = example.substr(0, example.length - 1)

  • substring

     
    var result = example.substr(0, example.length - 1)