Run results for: Regex removing first whitespace vs trim

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/119.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 119

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

trim

8.4M/s

regex

8.3M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ trim	8,424,177 Ops/sec
regex	8,327,591 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var string = '    fsajdf asdfjosa fjoiawejf oawjfoei jaosdjfsdjfo sfjos 2324234 sdf safjao j o        sdlfks dflks l      '

Tests: