Run results for: Substring vs string array access

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 118

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
Substring	6671456.5 Ops/sec
String array access	6678121.5 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];