Run results for: str.match vs str.Split

Run details:

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 Edg/129.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 129

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

String.split

8.0M/s

Regex.match

1.6M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ String.split	7,993,408 Ops/sec
Regex.match	1,641,791 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

string = "This is a benchmark to test if matching a regex is faster that splitting a string";
regex = /\S+/gi;

Tests: