Run results for: str.match vs str.Split

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_6_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.6 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 16

Operating system: iOS 16.6.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

String.split

3.9M/s

Regex.match

2.4M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ String.split	3,907,112 Ops/sec
Regex.match	2,435,381 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: