Run results for: RegEx.exec vs String.match

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:124.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/124.0

Browser: Firefox 124

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

regex.exec

54.6M/s

string.match

40.7M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ regex.exec	54,614,008 Ops/sec
string.match	40,739,584 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: