Run results for: A Spl vs Regx

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 124

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

Regex

8.1M/s

Split

8.0M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Regex	8,083,902 Ops/sec
Split	7,998,404 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

const urlPath = "/aaa/bbbb/ccccc/dddddd/eeeeeee"

function regspl() {
  if (urlPath === "/") {
    return [""];
  } else {
    const regex = /[^\/]+/g;
    return urlPath.match(regex) || [""];
  }
}

function nmsplit() {
 	return urlPath.split('/').filter(Boolean);
}

Tests:

Split
nmsplit()
Regex
regspl()