Benchmark: unescape vs replace function

Script Preparation code:

var count = 1000;

Tests:

unescape
for (var i = 0; i < count; i++) { unescape(encodeURI("日")); }
replace func
for (var i = 0; i < count; i++) { encodeURI("日").replace(/%[\da-f]{2}/gi, (char) => String.fromCodePoint(parseInt(char.replace(/%/, ""), 16))); }

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
unescape
replace func

Latest run results:

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

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 121 on Windows

Test name	Executions per second
unescape	3135.9 Ops/sec
replace func	1067.7 Ops/sec

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unescape vs replace function (version: 0)