Run results for: indexOf vs regex vs RegExp

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:122.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/122.0

Browser: Firefox 122

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

regex

13.3M/s

trim, lowercase, indexof

9.2M/s

lowercase, trim, indexof

8.4M/s

RegExp

3.9M/s

lowercase, replace, indexof

3.6M/s

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Script Preparation code:

var str = "This is a simple test!";
var needle = "simple";
var ri = new RegExp('simple', 'i');

Tests:

lowercase, trim, indexof
var a = str.toLowerCase().trim(); var b = needle.toLowerCase().trim(); var c = a.indexOf(b) > -1;
trim, lowercase, indexof
var a = str.trim().toLowerCase(); var b = needle.trim().toLowerCase(); var c = a.indexOf(b) > -1;
regex
var c = /simple/i.test(str);
lowercase, replace, indexof
var a = str.toLowerCase().replace(" ", ""); var b = needle.toLowerCase().replace(" ", ""); var c = a.indexOf(b) > -1;
RegExp
var c = (new RegExp(needle, 'i')).test(str);