Run results for: Split vs Regex but with URLs

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:137.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/137.0

Browser: Firefox 137

Operating system: Windows

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Regex

746.1M/s

Splitting

5.0M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Regex	746,145,856 Ops/sec
Splitting	4,993,935 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var testString = "test|https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/12/tech/trump-electronics-china-tariffs/index.html?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc#openweb-convo|0-1,5-6,99-10101"

Tests:

Splitting
var values = testString.split("|"); var value1 = values[0]; var value2 = values[1]; var value3 = values[2];
Regex
var regex = '(.*?)\|(.*?)\|(.*)' var value1 = regex[0]; var value2 = regex[1]; var value3 = regex[2];