Run results for: RegEx.exec vs String.match

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:131.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/131.0

Browser: Firefox 131

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

regex.exec

7.8M/s

string.match

7.0M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ regex.exec	7,760,041 Ops/sec
string.match	6,969,265 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: