Run results for: RegEx.test vs String.search

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:123.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/123.0

Browser: Firefox 123

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

RegEx.test()

52.0M/s

String.search()

40.7M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ RegEx.test()	52,003,316 Ops/sec
String.search()	40,678,816 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var REGEX = /abcdef/

Tests: