Benchmark: Array manual search vs Regex.test

Tests:

Array.includes
const box = ['###','#*#', '###']; for(let i=0 ; i < box.length ; i++) { for(let j=0 ; j < box[i].length ; j++) { if(box[i][j] === '*') { return true; } } } return false;
Regex.test
const regex = /\*/; const box = ['###','#*#','###']; regex.test(box);

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
Array.includes
Regex.test

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: one year ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 129 on Linux

Array.includes

10.2M/s

Regex.test

1.5M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Array.includes	10,166,660 Ops/sec
Regex.test	1,535,000 Ops/sec

Array manual search vs Regex.test (version: 1)