Run results for: RegExp constructor vs literal

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_6_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.6 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 17

Operating system: iOS 17.6.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Literal

9.7M/s

new RegExp()

9.5M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ Literal	9,721,666 Ops/sec
new RegExp()	9,478,332 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: