Run results for: replaceAll vs regex replace

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.0.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Mobile Safari 18

Operating system: iOS 18.0.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

replace regex

266.9M/s

replace All

3.7M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ replace regex	266,892,576 Ops/sec
replace All	3,730,797 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

String.prototype.replaceAll = function(search, replacement) {
    var target = this;
    return target.replace(new RegExp(search, 'g'), replacement);
};

Tests:

replace regex
"this is it".replace(/ /g, "+");
replace All
"this is it".replaceAll(" ", "+");