Run results for: Regex removing whitespace vs trim

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 17

Operating system: iOS 17.0.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

trim

16.9M/s

regex

5.2M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ trim	16,930,126 Ops/sec
regex	5,243,073 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var string = '    fsajdf asdfjosa fjoiawejf oawjfoei jaosdjfsdjfo sfjos 2324234 sdf safjao j o        sdlfks dflks l      '

Tests: