Run results for: RegEx.exec vs String.match

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 13_2_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.0.3 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 13

Operating system: iOS 13.2.3

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

string.match

9.9M/s

regex.exec

9.9M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ string.match	9,942,040 Ops/sec
regex.exec	9,940,090 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var string = "Hello world!";
var regex = /[A-Z][a-z]+ [a-z]+/;

Tests:

regex.exec
regex.exec(string);
string.match
string.match(regex);