Run results for: Split vs Regex

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 15; Mobile; rv:137.0) Gecko/137.0 Firefox/137.0

Browser: Firefox Mobile 137

Operating system: Android

Device Platform: Mobile

Date tested: one year ago

Regex

186.9M/s

Splitting

9.3M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ Regex	186,871,664 Ops/sec
Splitting	9,326,985 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var testString = "testing\nNewlines\nBleh"

Tests:

Splitting
var values = testString.split("\n"); var value1 = values[0]; var value2 = values[1]; var value3 = values[2];
Regex
var regex = /.+((?=\n)|$)/g var value1 = regex[0]; var value2 = regex[1]; var value3 = regex[2];