Run results for: Regex or string javascript replace

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:126.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/126.0

Browser: Firefox 126

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Regex rep

2.5M/s

String rep

2.1M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Regex rep	2,452,701 Ops/sec
String rep	2,085,686 Ops/sec

Tests:

Regex rep
"mooly {food} p{}lace".replace(/[{}]/g, (ch) => { return ch === '{' ? '[' : ']' })
String rep
("mooly {food} p{}lace".replace(/{/g, "[")).replace(/}/g, "]")