Run results for: regex vs substring compare

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 122

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

substring

70.7M/s

regex

4.0M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ substring	70,654,120 Ops/sec
regex	4,042,332 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

const link = "https://stats.nba.com";
const linkRegex = new RegExp(/^(http|www)/i);

Tests:

regex
const link = "https://stats.nba.com"; const linkRegex = new RegExp(/^(http|www)/i); if(link.match(linkRegex) !== null){}
substring
const link = "https://stats.nba.com"; const start = link.substring(0,3); if(start === 'htt' || start === 'www'){}