Run results for: Split vs Regex

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 17

Operating system: iOS 17.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Regex

45.1M/s

Splitting

9.0M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ Regex	45,105,636 Ops/sec
Splitting	9,024,463 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var testString = "testing\nNewlines\nBleh"

Tests:

Splitting
var values = testString.split("\n"); var value1 = values[0]; var value2 = values[1]; var value3 = values[2];
Regex
var regex = /.+((?=\n)|$)/g var value1 = regex[0]; var value2 = regex[1]; var value3 = regex[2];