Run results for: Regex vs split/join

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:121.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/121.0

Browser: Firefox 121

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Split and Join

800K/s

Regex

75K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Split and Join	799,617 Ops/sec
Regex	74,526 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var str = 'Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxyAbcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy';

Tests:

Regex
str.replace(/./g, "$&Z");
Split and Join
str.split('').join('Z') + 'Z';