Run results for: replaceAll vs regex replace vs split&join

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/125.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 125

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

split&join

15.1M/s

replace regex

12.4M/s

replace All

4.9M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ split&join	15,062,974 Ops/sec
replace regex	12,372,742 Ops/sec
replace All	4,944,334 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

String.prototype.replaceAll = function(search, replacement) {
    var target = this;
    return target.replace(new RegExp(search, 'g'), replacement);
};

Tests:

replace regex
"this {a} is {a} it".replace(/\{a\}/g, "+");
replace All
"this {a} is {a} it".replaceAll("{a}", "+");
split&join
"this {a} is {a} it".split('{a}').join('+');