Run results for: split-join vs regex replace

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 135

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

replace regex

12.3M/s

split-join

11.9M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ replace regex	12,342,513 Ops/sec
split-join	11,902,760 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

String.prototype.replaceAll = function(search, replacement) {
    var target = this;
    return target.replace(new RegExp(search, 'g'), replacement);
};

Tests:

replace regex
"this is it".replace(/ /g, "+");
split-join
"this is it".split(" ").join("+");