Run results for: Split Join vs Basic string replace

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 123

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Replace (SIMPLE)

4.9M/s

Split and Join

362K/s

Replace (REGEX)

218K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Replace (SIMPLE)	4,940,108 Ops/sec
Split and Join	361,971 Ops/sec
Replace (REGEX)	218,171 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var str = 'Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxyAbcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy Abcd efghij klmnopqrstuv wxy';

Tests:

Replace (SIMPLE)
str.replace("m", "$&Z");
Split and Join
str.split('').join('Z') + 'Z';
Replace (REGEX)
str.replace(/./g, "$&Z");