Run results for: RegExp constructor vs literal

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/110.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 110

Operating system: Linux

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Literal

24.4M/s

new RegExp()

24.3M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Literal	24,361,640 Ops/sec
new RegExp()	24,323,618 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var reConstructor = new RegExp('^[0-9a-fA-F]{24}$')
var reLiteral = /^[0-9a-fA-F]{24}$/

Tests: