Run results for: RegExp constructor vs literal

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0

Browser: Firefox 128

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

new RegExp()

6.2M/s

Literal

6.1M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ new RegExp()	6,222,798 Ops/sec
Literal	6,105,691 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: