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Float string optimization: parseFloat() vs regex
To get a cleaned-up float number with a limited number of digits of precision, which is faster: parsefloat() or a regular expression?
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User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Browser:
Chrome 129
Operating system:
Windows
Device Platform:
Desktop
Date tested:
one year ago
regex
1.8M/s
parseFloat()
1.4M/s
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✓
regex
1,776,414 Ops/sec
parseFloat()
1,371,596 Ops/sec
Tests:
parseFloat()
var string = parseFloat((3/2).toFixed(4)).toString();
regex
var string = (3/2).toFixed(4).replace(/\.?0*$/, '');