Run results for: Split vs Regex

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_1_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/132.0.6834.78 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1

Browser: Chrome Mobile iOS 132

Operating system: iOS 18.1.1

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Regex

120.8M/s

Splitting

18.9M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Regex	120,810,736 Ops/sec
Splitting	18,864,282 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];