Run results for: Split vs Regex

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

34.7M/s

Splitting

9.6M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ Regex	34,709,720 Ops/sec
Splitting	9,599,884 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var testString = "testing\nNewlines\nBleh"

Tests:

Splitting
var values = testString.split("\n"); var value1 = values[0]; var value2 = values[1]; var value3 = values[2];
Regex
var regex = /.+((?=\n)|$)/g var value1 = regex[0]; var value2 = regex[1]; var value3 = regex[2];