Run results for: Split vs Regex

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 114

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: 2 years ago

Regex

9.7M/s

Splitting

1.5M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Regex	9,690,929 Ops/sec
Splitting	1,538,732 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var testString = "testing\nNewlines\nBleh"

Tests:

Splitting
var values = testString.split("\n"); var value1 = values[0]; var value2 = values[1]; var value3 = values[2];
Regex
var regex = /.+((?=\n)|$)/g var value1 = regex[0]; var value2 = regex[1]; var value3 = regex[2];