Run results for: RegEx.exec vs String.match

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:133.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/133.0

Browser: Firefox 133

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

regex.exec

23.9M/s

string.match

19.6M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ regex.exec	23,873,868 Ops/sec
string.match	19,552,474 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var string = "Hello world!";
var regex = /[A-Z][a-z]+ [a-z]+/;

Tests: