Run results for: RegEx.test vs String.search

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 132

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

RegEx.test()

19.1M/s

String.search()

18.3M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ RegEx.test()	19,085,406 Ops/sec
String.search()	18,314,798 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var REGEX = /abcdef/

Tests: