Run results for: split-join vs regex replace

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

replace regex

5.4M/s

split-join

4.8M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ replace regex	5,368,194 Ops/sec
split-join	4,822,327 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

String.prototype.replaceAll = function(search, replacement) {
    var target = this;
    return target.replace(new RegExp(search, 'g'), replacement);
};

Tests:

replace regex
"this is it".replace(/ /g, "+");
split-join
"this is it".split(" ").join("+");