Run results for: RegExp constructor vs literal

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 120

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

new RegExp()

8.6M/s

Literal

8.5M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ new RegExp()	8,584,226 Ops/sec
Literal	8,512,735 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var reConstructor = new RegExp('^[0-9a-fA-F]{24}$')
var reLiteral = /^[0-9a-fA-F]{24}$/

Tests: