Run results for: RegEx.exec vs String.match

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

regex.exec

7.1M/s

string.match

6.3M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ regex.exec	7,141,802 Ops/sec
string.match	6,293,089 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: