Run results for: RegEx.test vs String.search

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:123.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/123.0

Browser: Firefox 123

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

RegEx.test()

45.2M/s

String.search()

30.7M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ RegEx.test()	45,205,860 Ops/sec
String.search()	30,696,652 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var REGEX = /abcdef/

Tests: