Run results for: RegEx.exec vs String.match

Run details:

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.4 Safari/605.1.15

Browser: Safari 18

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.15.7

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: one year ago

regex.exec

364.7M/s

string.match

86.6M/s

View exact numbers

Test name	Executions per second
✓ regex.exec	364,713,408 Ops/sec
string.match	86,560,560 Ops/sec

Script Preparation code:

var string = "Hello world!";
var regex = /[A-Z][a-z]+ [a-z]+/;

Tests: