Benchmark: String.matchAll() vs RegExp.exec()

HTML Preparation code:

<!--your preparation HTML code goes here-->

Script Preparation code:

const regex = new RegExp('[A-Z $%*+\\-./:]+', 'g')
const string = 'Hello world, this is a just wonderful day!'

Tests:

String.matchAll()
const results = [] for (const result of string.matchAll(regex)) { results.push(result) }
RegExp.exec()
const results = [] let result while ((result = regex.exec(string)) !== null) { results.push(result) }

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
String.matchAll()
RegExp.exec()

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 4 months ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/145.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 145 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

RegExp.exec()

5.4M/s

String.matchAll()

3.9M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ RegExp.exec()	5,446,756 Ops/sec
String.matchAll()	3,864,937 Ops/sec

String.matchAll() vs RegExp.exec() (version: 1)