Run results for: RegEx.exec vs String.match

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.exec

4.0M/s

string.match

3.9M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ regex.exec	3,959,166 Ops/sec
string.match	3,864,767 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var string = "Hello world!";
var regex = /[A-Z][a-z]+ [a-z]+/;

Tests: