Run results for: Comparing performance of: String.search vs String.match

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:134.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/134.0

Browser: Firefox 134

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

String.search

40.0M/s

String.match

35.1M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ String.search	39,973,348 Ops/sec
String.match	35,110,324 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var string = "Hello world!";
var regex = /^Hello world!$/;

Tests: