Run results for: string.replace vs regexp.matchAll vs regexp.exec

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 114

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Tests:

string.replace
const s = 'Apple Apple Apple Apple Apple'; const r = new RegExp('(^|\\P{L})(Apple)($|\\P{L})', 'giu'); s.replace(r, '*****');
regexp.matchAll
const s = 'Apple Apple Apple Apple Apple'; const r = new RegExp('(^|\\P{L})(Apple)($|\\P{L})', 'giu'); const n = []; const matches = [...s.matchAll(r)]; matches.forEach((match) => { // do something // n.push(match.index); });
regexp.exec
const s = 'Apple Apple Apple Apple Apple'; const r = new RegExp('(^|\\P{L})(Apple)($|\\P{L})', 'giu'); const n = []; let execResults; while ((execResults = r.exec(s)) !== null) { // do something // n.push(execResults.index); }