Run results for: RegEx.exec vs String.match

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome Mobile 131

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

regex.exec

16.2M/s

string.match

14.1M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ regex.exec	16,234,978 Ops/sec
string.match	14,091,243 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var string = "Hello world!";
var regex = /[A-Z][a-z]+ [a-z]+/;

Tests: