Run results for: split-join vs regex replace

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:136.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/136.0

Browser: Firefox 136

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

split-join

8.2M/s

replace regex

7.0M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ split-join	8,217,895 Ops/sec
replace regex	6,975,742 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("+");