Run results for: match vs test vs split vs trim to check for empty string or all spaces

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 Edg/131.0.0.0

Browser: Chrome 131

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

trim

2.7M/s

test

1.6M/s

match

1.5M/s

split

1.4M/s

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Script Preparation code:

window.strs = [['    ', true], ['', true], ['asdf', false], ['                 ', true]]

Tests:

match
window.strs.forEach(([str, expected]) => { (str.match(/^ *$/) !== null) === expected; });
test
window.strs.forEach(([str, expected]) => { /^ *$/.test(str) === expected; });
split
window.strs.forEach(([str, expected]) => { (str.split(/^ *$/).length === 2) === expected; });
trim
window.strs.forEach(([str, expected]) => { (str.trim().length === 0) === expected; });