Run results for: RegExp constructor vs literal

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:135.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/135.0

Browser: Firefox 135

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Literal

25.5M/s

new RegExp()

25.4M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Literal	25,472,874 Ops/sec
new RegExp()	25,391,280 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: