Run results for: char index vs charAt() vs slice()

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 12; Pixel 3a) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/100.0.4896.88 Mobile Safari/537.36 EdgA/100.0.1185.43

Browser: Chrome Mobile 100

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Test name	Executions per second
character index	2005566.1 Ops/sec
charAt()	2016507.0 Ops/sec
slice()	1895157.1 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var str = 'foo bar baz';
var noop = Function.prototype;

Tests:

character index
if (str[0] == 'f') noop();
charAt()
if (str.charAt(0) == 'f') noop();
slice()
if (str.slice(0, 1) == 'f') noop();

Run results for: char index vs charAt() vs slice()

Compare methods for testing string's beggining character.

character index

charAt()

slice()