Run results for: str.match vs str.Split

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/121.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 121

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

String.split

4.3M/s

Regex.match

734K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ String.split	4,262,250 Ops/sec
Regex.match	734,448 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

string = "This is a benchmark to test if matching a regex is faster that splitting a string";
regex = /\S+/gi;

Tests: