Run results for: RegEx.exec vs String.match

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:133.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/133.0

Browser: Firefox 133

Operating system: Ubuntu

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

regex.exec

19.5M/s

string.match

12.8M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ regex.exec	19,490,456 Ops/sec
string.match	12,763,135 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: