Run results for: Split vs Regex

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 14; Mobile; rv:133.0) Gecko/133.0 Firefox/133.0

Browser: Firefox Mobile 133

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Regex

129.9M/s

Splitting

6.7M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Regex	129,906,920 Ops/sec
Splitting	6,716,891 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var testString = "testing\nNewlines\nBleh"

Tests:

Splitting
var values = testString.split("\n"); var value1 = values[0]; var value2 = values[1]; var value3 = values[2];
Regex
var regex = /.+((?=\n)|$)/g var value1 = regex[0]; var value2 = regex[1]; var value3 = regex[2];