Run results for: JavaScript string split vs match using regex

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:132.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/132.0

Browser: Firefox 132

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

split

3.1M/s

match

3.0M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ split	3,090,446 Ops/sec
match	3,002,656 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

string = "This benchmark is testing if split or match is faster on a string using regex";
regex = /\S+/gi;

Tests: