Run results for: replaceAll vs regex with g flag

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:120.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/120.0

Browser: Firefox 120

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

regex

3K/s

replaceAll

2K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ regex	2,956 Ops/sec
replaceAll	2,358 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

window.hugeString = "";

for (let i = 0; i < 10000; ++i) {
  window.hugeString += "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
}

Tests: