Run results for: Split vs Regex but with URLs

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 134

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Regex

158.9M/s

Splitting

39.4M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Regex	158,853,504 Ops/sec
Splitting	39,404,960 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];