Run results for: RegEx.exec vs String.match

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 122

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

regex.exec

9.4M/s

string.match

8.8M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ regex.exec	9,432,771 Ops/sec
string.match	8,781,012 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: