Benchmark: string to first character

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests:

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
to array position
char

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Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 2 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:92.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/92.0

Browser/OS: Firefox 92 on Mac OS X 10.15

Test name	Executions per second
to array position	4507005.0 Ops/sec
char	167502300.0 Ops/sec

string to first character (version: 0)