Run results for: JavaScript string split vs match using regex

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Browser: Chrome 135

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

Benchmark engine: Benchmark.js

match

2.6M/s

split

1.9M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ match	2,594,362 Ops/sec
split	1,879,216 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

string = "This benchmark is testing if split or match is faster on a string using regex";
regex = /\S+/gi;

Tests: