Run results for: Split vs Regex

Run details:

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

Browser: Firefox 123

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Regex

121.2M/s

Splitting

6.8M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Regex	121,216,032 Ops/sec
Splitting	6,784,826 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];