Run results for: RegEx.test vs String.search

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Browser: Firefox 78

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.11

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

String.search()

3.8M/s

RegEx.test()

3.7M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ String.search()	3,784,514 Ops/sec
RegEx.test()	3,706,519 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var REGEX = /abcdef/

Tests: