Run results for: RegExp constructor vs literal

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 127

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

new RegExp()

4.9M/s

Literal

4.7M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ new RegExp()	4,874,376 Ops/sec
Literal	4,705,690 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var reConstructor = new RegExp('^[0-9a-fA-F]{24}$')
var reLiteral = /^[0-9a-fA-F]{24}$/

Tests: