Run results for: String compare VS regex

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 130

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Test name	Executions per second
Compare	135749.1 Ops/sec
Regex	132583.8 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

a = ['some_string', 'some_strings', 'other_string', 'end_other_string']

Tests:

Compare
for (let item of a) { console.log(item === 'some_strings' || item === 'some_string') }
Regex
const regex = new RegExp(/some_strings?/i); for (let item of a) { console.log(regex.test(item)); }