Run results for: str.match vs str.Split

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 14541.0.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 125

Operating system: Chrome OS 14541.0.0

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

String.split

2.8M/s

Regex.match

495K/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ String.split	2,792,574 Ops/sec
Regex.match	494,637 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

string = "This is a benchmark to test if matching a regex is faster that splitting a string";
regex = /\S+/gi;

Tests: