Run results for: RegExp constructor vs literal

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/123.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 123

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Literal

6.1M/s

new RegExp()

6.1M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Literal	6,083,513 Ops/sec
new RegExp()	6,078,846 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var reConstructor = new RegExp('^[0-9a-fA-F]{24}$')
var reLiteral = /^[0-9a-fA-F]{24}$/

Tests: