Run results for: RegEx.test vs String.search

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 126

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

RegEx.test()

8.2M/s

String.search()

5.7M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ RegEx.test()	8,217,705 Ops/sec
String.search()	5,730,927 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var REGEX = /abcdef/

Tests: