Run results for: JavaScript string split vs match using regex

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0

Browser: Firefox 115

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.13

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

match

338K/s

split

303K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ match	338,197 Ops/sec
split	302,840 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

string = "This benchmark is testing if split or match is faster on a string using regex";
regex = /\S+/gi;

Tests: