Run results for: match vs split multiple test string

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/127.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 127

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 2 years ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

split

15.4M/s

match

9.0M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ split	15,440,789 Ops/sec
match	9,012,734 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

string = "This benchmark is to {{teststring}} ask the ageold question, will it fast? We are s{{teststring}}plitting a string at spaces with two methods.";

Tests:

match
const count = (string.match(/{{teststring}}/g) || []).length
split
const count = string.split("{{teststring}}").length - 1;