Benchmark: Define Regex inline vs not inline...

Tests:

define in function
const run_one_regex = (text) => { ONE_REGEX = /^(?!.* $\s)[\w *()[\]'"/.&–-]+$/gm return ONE_REGEX.test(text); } const text = 'blarb'; for(let i = 0; i < 20000; i++) { run_one_regex(text); }
define outside
ONE_REGEX = /^(?!.* $\s)[\w *()[\]'"/.&–-]+$/gm const run_one_regex = (text) => { return ONE_REGEX.test(text); } const text = 'blarb'; for(let i = 0; i < 20000; i++) { run_one_regex(text); }

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Previous results

Test case name	Result
define in function
define outside

Latest run results:

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

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 130 on Mac OS X 10.15.7

Test name	Executions per second
define in function	453.4 Ops/sec
define outside	2243.9 Ops/sec

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