Run results for: RegEx.exec vs String.match

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_5 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/124.0.6367.71 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Chrome Mobile iOS 124

Operating system: iOS 17.5

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

regex.exec

7.0M/s

string.match

6.9M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ regex.exec	7,026,698 Ops/sec
string.match	6,934,379 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests:

regex.exec
regex.exec(string);
string.match
string.match(regex);