Run results for: RegEx.exec vs String.match

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:130.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/130.0

Browser: Firefox 130

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

regex.exec

25.5M/s

string.match

20.3M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ regex.exec	25,452,726 Ops/sec
string.match	20,253,742 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var string = "Hello world!";
var regex = /[A-Z][a-z]+ [a-z]+/;

Tests: