Run results for: json stringify vs array tostring

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 12_1_4 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 12

Operating system: iOS 12.1.4

Device Platform: Tablet

Date tested: 4 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
toString	394585.1 Ops/sec
JSON.stringify	318464.3 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

function moreData(arr, left) {
  if(left === 0) return arr;
  else {
    arr.push(Math.floor(Math.random() * 256));
  	return moreData(arr, left - 1);
  }
}
function makeTestData() { return moreData([], 4); }

Tests:

toString
makeTestData().toString()
JSON.stringify
JSON.stringify(makeTestData());

Run results for: json stringify vs array tostring

toString

JSON.stringify