Run results for: RegEx.test vs String.search

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 121

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

RegEx.test()

14.8M/s

String.search()

14.2M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ RegEx.test()	14,799,851 Ops/sec
String.search()	14,172,936 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var REGEX = /abcdef/

Tests: