Run results for: parseInt vs toString vs string literal vs + empty string

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 128

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 months ago

Test name	Executions per second
parseInt a number	1851577.4 Ops/sec
parseInt a string	1590688.2 Ops/sec
toString a number	14837847.0 Ops/sec
toString a string	14394832.0 Ops/sec
string literal a number	28242462.0 Ops/sec
string literal a string	19633814.0 Ops/sec
add empty string to number	27736540.0 Ops/sec
add empty string to string	25903146.0 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var numbers = [1, 12, 123, 1234, 12345, 123456, 1234567, 12345678, 123456789];
var strNumbers = ["1", "12", "123", "1234", "12345", "123456", "1234567", "12345678", "123456789"];

Tests:

parseInt a number
numbers.forEach(n => parseInt(n, 10));
parseInt a string
strNumbers.forEach(n => parseInt(n, 10));
toString a number
numbers.forEach(n => n.toString());
toString a string
strNumbers.forEach(n => n.toString());
string literal a number
numbers.forEach(n => `${n}`);
string literal a string
strNumbers.forEach(n => `${n}`);
add empty string to number
numbers.forEach(n => n + "");
add empty string to string
strNumbers.forEach(n => n + "");

Run results for: parseInt vs toString vs string literal vs + empty string

parseInt a number

parseInt a string

toString a number

toString a string

string literal a number

string literal a string

add empty string to number

add empty string to string