Benchmark: Native JS: concatenate string with + vs template literals vs String.concat2

Script Preparation code:

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Tests:

using plus operator
for (let i = 0; i < 80000; ++i) { let result = id + ": 1, " + name + ": someItem"; }
using concat function
for (let i = 0; i < 80000; ++i) { let result = "".concat(id, ": 1, ", name, ": someItem"); }
using template literals
for (let i = 0; i < 80000; ++i) { let result = `${id}: 1, ${name}: someItem`; }

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Previous results

Test case name	Result
using plus operator
using concat function
using template literals

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Run details: (Test run date: 16 days ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.1.1 Safari/605.1.15

Browser/OS: Safari 18 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

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Test name	Executions per second
using plus operator	521.3 Ops/sec
using concat function	341.5 Ops/sec
using template literals	517.7 Ops/sec

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 2 months ago):

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Let's dive into the benchmark and explain what's being tested.

**Benchmark Overview**

The benchmark is comparing three different ways to concatenate strings in JavaScript:

1. **Using the `+` operator**
2. **Using the `concat()` function**
3. **Using template literals**

The benchmark consists of a single variable, `id`, which is set to `"someId"` (not shown in the provided code), and another variable, `name`, which is also not shown. The benchmark creates a string by concatenating these two variables with some text.

**Test Cases**

There are three test cases:

1. **Using the `+` operator**: This test case uses the `+` operator to concatenate the strings.
2. **Using the `concat()` function**: This test case uses the `concat()` function to concatenate the strings.
3. **Using template literals**: This test case uses template literals (`${}`) to concatenate the strings.

**Benchmark Results**

The benchmark results show the performance of each method for 80000 iterations:

1. **Using the `+` operator**: The browser executed approximately 204 executions per second (with a slight variation).
2. **Using the `concat()` function**: The browser executed approximately 201 executions per second.
3. **Using template literals**: The browser executed approximately 182 executions per second.

**Observations**

Based on these results, it appears that:

* Using the `+` operator is slightly faster than using the `concat()` function and template literals.
* Template literals are slower than both of the other methods.

These results may vary depending on the specific use case, JavaScript engine, and hardware platform.

Keep in mind that this benchmark only measures the performance of these three string concatenation methods and does not account for potential factors like memory allocation, garbage collection, or CPU overhead.

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using plus operator

using concat function

using template literals

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