Run results for: RegEx.exec vs String.match

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 132

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

string.match

25.9M/s

regex.exec

24.8M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ string.match	25,937,960 Ops/sec
regex.exec	24,758,504 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: