Run results for: RegExp constructor vs literal

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:136.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/136.0

Browser: Firefox 136

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

new RegExp()

6.1M/s

Literal

5.9M/s

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Test name	Executions per second
✓ new RegExp()	6,123,550 Ops/sec
Literal	5,932,680 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

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

Tests: