Run results for: Array manual search vs Regex.test

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Array.includes

41.3M/s

Regex.test

4.7M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Array.includes	41,256,436 Ops/sec
Regex.test	4,653,732 Ops/sec

Tests:

Array.includes
const box = ['###','#*#', '###']; for(let i=0 ; i < box.length ; i++) { for(let j=0 ; j < box[i].length ; j++) { if(box[i][j] === '*') { return true; } } } return false;
Regex.test
const regex = /\*/; const box = ['###','#*#','###']; regex.test(box);